Dr David Starkey

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

You need that fertile soil of the past for things to grow.

It's not surprising all of these things went wrong under Blair, because what he effectively did was to tear everything up by the roots.

And then you're very surprised 20 years later when they've all withered, because you pull them up.

I think on that latter point, I am not entirely unsympathetic.

I'm very sympathetic.

But let me distinguish.

I think that what we must recognise is that we did one really important thing.

in the early 18th century.

This is after the fall of the Tory government under Queen Anne and the coming to power of the current royal house, the House of Hanover.

We, at that point, looked as though we were going to continue impeachment, which in the form of impeachment, so with Robert Harley, the Earl of Oxford, it looked as though we would do what had always happened up to that point, that when a leading minister falls, you get confiscation and execution.

We didn't do it.

And we haven't done it from that point onwards.

And I don't want to do that.

What I think would be legitimate, because I think there needs to be a measure of public disapproval, that point that I made about the guilty men, I would do it by the stripping of honours.

It seems to me that it is entirely appropriate that people like May be stripped of her peerage.

I think it is entirely appropriate that Blair be stripped of the garter.

And there needs to be an act of public shaming.

But there is always the risk of that, of course, that it just becomes tit for tat, which is what it did before.

And also the pursuit of vengeance is a foolish one because it does terrible damage to people.

I mean, I know, I experienced cancellation.

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