Dr David Starkey

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TRIGGERnometry · The British State Hates its Own People - Dr David Starkey · 20 Jun 2026 podcast

of the enterprise of imposing a completely alien notion of law, which is human rights law, and the Brown Equality Act.

I mean, the problem is, Francis, and you're doing your usual sweet, I'm not completely understanding and I'm a bit puzzled,

which is your essential role on this show.

You do it absolutely wonderfully well.

I've often wondered just quite how much rehearsal is called to keep it up for the length of time that you do.

But the essential point is that we've had this world in which...

And it's really remarkable if you go back and you look at Blair's memoirs.

I mean, I got very interested in how all this happened.

And it's perfectly clear Blair, and particularly Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, who was responsible for so much of this, didn't really know what they were doing.

They thought all this was zingy modernizing.

We're a new country.

Or indeed, exactly the same with David Cameron, modernization.

But there were people exactly like Keir Starmer who knew what they were doing, who knew what the introduction of the Human Rights Act would do, that would actually make it that we completely stood our system of government on its head and that we replaced a political constitution with a legal constitution.

And again, many people will think, well, isn't that a really good thing?

The problem is, law cannot adjudicate satisfactorily between the individual right and common public safety, and it cannot deal either with budgets.

Let's give you an example.

What the Equality Act does is to introduce this notion that there is a right wage separate from the market wage.

and that a judge can determine it.

So you have this lunacy in which, because one group of people who happen to be women do a job like being dinner ladies for Birmingham City Council, and another group of people who happen to be men, chaps,

perhaps, do dustbin collecting.

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