Dr David Starkey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Dr David Starkey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, the whole madness.
But in order to restore the alleged original vegetation of Dartmoor, hadn't we better kill the ponies?
Well, of course, the English, because we're terminally sentimental people,
get wildly excited about that.
But what else has English Nature done?
English Nature has inflicted on HS2, if it wasn't already a bad enough mess, an extra hundred million pounds for a bat tunnel.
It is calculated that it might save about six bats.
This is your money.
It's my money.
It's why nothing can get done.
Even worse, we're facing this astonishing power shortage.
What a vast, soaring cost of electricity.
What have they done to contribute to that?
Our nuclear power station, which has already taken 10 times as long.
as equivalent structures in China to build, they have imposed costs of 600 million pounds in order to protect fishes against getting a little bit overheated in the discharge waters.
And do you know what?
They've decided that's not enough.
And what they're going to do is they're going to insist that we reconstitute the salt marshes.
So you're going to look at adding approximately another billion pounds.
This is insanity.
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