Dr David Starkey

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

This weird business and Makersfield demonstrates it really interestingly.

Both Robert Kenyon and also the reform candidate, and Andy Burnham themselves,

They're playing the ordinary chap routine.

We're just completely ordinary people.

And somehow the fact that we're just ordinary people, you know, except, you know, do it with a different accent.

I've now forgotten to do northern.

I've been away.

I'm with people.

People like Andy Burnham was at Cambridge, for God's sake, you know.

Read English literature at Cambridge.

You can't have anything much more south and poncy than that, can you?

But playing this game of being an ordinary person, this idea that the solution to what's gone wrong with our politics is a house of commons of completely inexperienced people is a madness.

The madness that they will be just chewed up and spat out by this judicial legal expert civil service machine that we've been talking about.

But it's very easy to see why.

And it's also, of course, one of the myths of democracy.

We want our politicians to be just like us.

Yeah, of course.

But also, there is a tragedy, and I think, again, it's tragedy, particularly at the moment of Farage, that...

You can see what he's trying to do.

I don't know whether you read the long-form essay that he published on Substack on two-tier.

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