The Tories and Labour haven’t had a unique idea in 20 years…this is why we’re where we are now. They don’t have to do anything much to fight for our votes because there are that many safe seats that 70% of the votes don’t have an impact on the outcome of an election thanks to our ridiculously undemocratic electoral system. As a result the quality of elected MPs has nose dived…just because many of them went to Private School…doesn’t make them intelligent. Conservatives enable Labour and vice versa. They know one or the other will win.

David, get ready for another Labour Government

I get the sense that the pompous kid at 1:03:50 getting excited about separation of powers and universalist doctrines hasn't had an original thought his entire life.

My god this man is a wondrous homosexual I could listen to him for hours. Fascinating chat he's bang on the money about property rights in the UK

I got shadow banned for a day by KZbin four days ago (April 27th). I knew because they told me, by changing the views for my latest vid from 29 to 19, then it went to back 29. For why?

I wonder what Mr Starkey reckons about Robertson's _The Enlightenment_ ??

In America we have a similar phenomenon. It's driven not by quangos but rather by twisted interpretations in the US constitution, especially its 14th Amendment's "Equal Protection Clause." So, we conservative speak wistfully of bringing back the "Constitution in exile."

No they didnt it was nice when labour were its the cons that destroyed everything and always do they deal in making us all fear

The people of Britain have been BETRAYED. It just shows how stupid they are to keep putting up with it and voting in the same crooks.

Hi David. The Tudor period is one of my favourite periods in history, the original BRexit / independence period. No worries for calling me vain and silly. You can’t really judge without knowing the full history. God bless.

What a treat to have access to a lecture like this for free!

Always amusing and good value as a reactionary historian, that loves to build up the paper tiger of so called WOKE. A useful foil in the amusing discussion on false British exceptionalism.

Fantastic knowledge of British history - far too detailed for today's fast and often depthless media. Thank you.

Excellent !

I thank god for your knowledge and honesty ❤

We need the David Starkey restoration manifesto

UK Imported ALL The Worlds Problems...and The Working Man payed for it ALL too.

17:30 in France landowners own all the way down, mineral rights and all. In England the Monarch/Crown has it. We dont quite have property rights better than France.

Thank you for this beautiful and entertaining lecture.

Brilliant as always. I envy those with brains. I’ve got a walnut but enjoyed it all the same.

I would have thought he'd have brought up The Road to Serfdom over The Constitution of Liberty

Communism has got its way in this country

This is what real education actually looks like (something that is painfully lacking in our actual education system).

Hayek's Constitution of Liberty is brilliant.

A recent book 'Russia and Human Rights Law: The USSR, Russian Federation and Change' adds to Dr Starkey's exploration of universalism and the Soviets interpretation of it at the UN during the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

David Starkey: always a pleasure

Woke is anti common sense

D.E.I. = Didn't Earn It!

Amazing man!! So knowledgeable

Blisteringly sharp man, with a characteristically incisive presentation.

Debt from 36% of GDP to 100%. Yay debt for the next 10 generations.

So true, J K Rowling is basically uncancellable because she has a lot of property.

Gosh, these people did not know who Hayek is.....everyone should read at least "The Road to Serfdom".

Because they're Marxo-fascist-Common Purpose indoctrinated globalists following orders from WEF-NGO-NWO. Follow the money (ie elites/Soros/Schwab/Bliar et al).

There's a lesson here for the Pro-Palestine marchers. Disraeli took office and vastly improved things. Sadiq Khan and Humza Yousef have taken office and achieved quite the opposite.

Yeah and the last 14 years haven’t been the most disastrous for Britain.

NOBODY does it like Starkey. Pure gold.

GREAT MAN DR STARKEY STOP ALL MIGRATION VOTE REFORM GET BACK ON TRACK

"were he to persist" INNIT ?

Democracy is an illusion, there are no political parties, they’re all the same, just different coloured badges and “narratives” working to a planned agenda towards long term goals over decades, with planned in “rest periods” and controlled opposition to give the people a feeling of some inclusion 🤔 it’s all a LIE

Sometimes one gets the feeling that David Starkey is casting pearls before swine.

❤love a David Starkey video!! In his own special way and dedication to detail you learn so very much!!!

Dear Dr Starkey: Thanks very much for this highly intriguing rundown on the political roots of contemporary woke-related, potentially lethal, widespread inanity. Not being of a particularly political bent oneself, but being born in England in 1972, and having hardly gone anywhere since, one can only concur with your isolation of the New Labour period 1997-2010 as the recent root cause for same i.e. the floodgates opened on a relentless and oppressive latent homosexual (English) male take on things leading to all manner of societal corruptions. Though maybe the ultimate roots of it all lie in a woman, Margaret Thatcher, rising to power here in England in 1979? You might want to consider the following theories too: 1. Dividing the world into pre- and post-1995 states I e. this watershed year (marking the beginning of World War 3, fought entirely on Main Street, using mobile phones as guns, comprising the wholly unregulated initial 'global' release of Viagra, mobile phones and Windows 95 upon a truly desperate world.); this current Aphasia pandemic proving the indisputable truth to same, thirty years down the line here in 2024. 2. A concomitant Main Street medical diagnosis, namely NSNL - neurologically sound, literate and numerate - terrifyingly, in April 2024, being more often than not a case of 'fail' rather than 'pass'. Yours faithfully John Moser

Excellent!! 🙂

Too many fake tories….i m telling You. Tory U are born U can t become one ! Remember these words ! Long Live the King!

At around 1 hour ten minutes Mr Starkey excellently articulates the transformation of the human rights act into a tool of oppression. Brilliant video. Many thanks

Blair is evil and will rot in HELL

The universal franchise is the greatest disaster to be inflicted on the British isles. You allow the envious mob to vote and are then surprised that property rights are impacted.

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Thank you David I would love to be one of your students but over a glass of wine. Ever been tempted to do what Roger Scruton did and set up his own education at his home?

The whole concept of universal human rights is as Prof. Starkey alludes, the root cause of institutional racism.