Dr David Starkey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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And Churchill, in that expansive post-war phase after 1945, conservatism bought this stuff.
It was defenseless.
And one of the things we've got to do on the right is to retrawl our past, re-explore our past, to find out what left us so vulnerable.
How did we lose the main... What is so terrible?
That question you asked me.
We were the world's best governed country.
Why does everywhere talk about a parliament?
Because they were copying ours.
Still the role of common law as the world's best system of commercial law.
However, catastrophically, it's gone wrong in terms of public law and criminal law in Britain itself.
The just quality of the British public service, the civil service until very recently.
Things have gone wrong very, very recently.
The roots are deeper, but we need to explore that past to find out what we need to recover.
Because again, the temptation is revolution.
The temptation is faced with this mess that I described, that we say, okay, knock it all down and start again.
That is the infinite catastrophe.
The attempts at doing that invariably fail.
The only reason the American... There's only been one successful revolution, and it's the American Revolution.
And that was successful because it wasn't a revolution.
It's not a revolution.
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