Dr David Starkey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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We've given a group all headed by Tony Juniper.
These people are fanatics.
You give single issue fanatics executive control.
Now, all of this, you give judges power over money.
Why is SEND, why is special educational needs completely out of control?
Because you set up a tribunal structure.
If you declare that children with special needs have rights
There can be no budget.
Law does not have regard to budget, as anybody who's been stupid enough to sue in a court knows.
Costs are of no order.
There's no consequence.
You know, the standard principle of Roman law is let the skies fall, justice must be done.
But that's not how you manage a society.
The only way you can manage...
How much we spend on children with special needs against everybody else's need is by politics.
But we deliberately remove the final decision from politics, which comes straight back to your point.
We're in this terrible paradox that the standing of politicians has never been lower.
but we desperately need the political process somehow to be revived, because that's the only way you can balance properly the individual against the group.
Otherwise, you have Singapore, or MBS, or Saudi Arabia, or China.
You have a dictatorship.
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