Dr David Starkey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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It's two central duties.
But unfortunately, you see, the failure really begins under the Conservatives.
This is the catastrophe, the worst cuts.
Again, Thatcher not escaping.
The reason that the Falklands happens is we make foolish reductions to the Navy and to the practice sending ships to the Falklands, and the Argentinians draw the obvious conclusion.
Similarly, it is George Osborne in his transcendent folly
that imposes so-called austerity across the board, apart from foreign aid and the NHS.
I mean, this is what I mean about the Tory party adopting the values of the left.
The only things that were protected from austerity were foreign aid and the NHS, the totems of the left by the Conservative Party.
And instead you begin this catastrophic programme of cutting back on criminal justice and legal aid.
Absolutely right.
That's exactly what the article about Makersfield is about in the New Statesman published today, saying exactly that, that there is...
And again, it's with what you expect.
How on earth do ordinary people, who most of the time rightly don't greatly care about politics, but they have an instinct.
They know.
They see.
They see everything from the potholes.
to the tips, to the fly tipping, to the extraordinary things that they hear their children say that they've been taught in school, to the manifest, the two-tier horrors of what happened in Southport, of what happened, unimaginable, what happened in Belfast.
and what happened in Southampton.
And all of them are the same.
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