Dr David Starkey
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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It's the moment at which you cut your fetters.
Or, you know, Samson pulling down the pillars of the temple.
That's not a very welcome analogy.
But you have to strike off the fetters before you can do anything at all.
But that requires what Thatcher was able to do.
Articulate ideas.
Explain why.
Carry people with you.
And again, I think that the population is ready for it.
This sense of, this sense of, I mean, there's a sense of, this terrible sense of nostalgia, of loss.
And it can go in one of two directions, can't it?
It can go to the violence.
And people like David Betts talking about the evident risk of small, low-scale civil war, it can go in that direction.
Or if there is somebody who can seize that moment, can explain to people what's gone wrong, why it's gone wrong, who was responsible, what's got to be done to put it right.
It can then be turned around.
It can become positive.
It can become a moment of genuine restoration and revival.
as has happened very frequently in the Anglo-British past.
You've termed what could have been the disaster of Magna Carta, the ensuing French invasion and whatever.
You had a man, William the Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, with the imagination, with the capacity, with the combination of political and military skill.
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