Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "David Starkey Talks" channel.

The great Dr Starkey, always fascinating, always a new perspective to some elements or other that we'd completely overlooked - and endlessly enthusiastic about his subject.
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As a kid overseas in the late 60s-early 70s, I knew this completely as fact. Thanks to the late and excellent Alistair Cooke who used to write his erudite, thought-provoking and perfectly composed Letters from America and send them off to the BBC World Service. I was an avid listener. Mr Cooke had an abiding interest in Monnet and Schumann's big wheeze. Over countless episodes, he laid out the covert plan in great and well-researched detail. Of course, these Letters were not broadcast in GB. That would probably have scuppered any talk of GB membership. The BBC was in its nascent woke period even then. Mr Cooke was plain: it was all about making a United States of Europe by stealth. I thought it all dastardly. By the time of the 1975 referendum I was only just about old enough to vote. My very first vote was a resounding NO! to what I knew was to be the USE. Because we had been conned into it, because they'd lied about their purpose, because you cannot vote for something without knowing what you're getting. There was no informed consent. It was an absolutely illegitimate , entirely deceitful referendum.
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Indeed. The great Dr Starkey has led us directly to the nation-breaking crux of the Carolean era without uttering a word about it. Right and proper as he's an historian, not a seer. I'm sad to realise that I concur with your invocation of Lenin's epithet.
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Just 5 years ago, no one would have even dreamed of You Tube cancelling this or any other legitimate channel. How spine-chilling that it's an almost automatic worry now when we think of the media, our history and culture. This is exactly how the Nazis and just about every other totalitarian dictatorship got started.
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Yes, I'd like to know much more of her too. She was clearly a mover and shaker and seems to have made a greater impression on history than her son. A whole talk would be very welcome.
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Listening to a range of very recent vox pops produced by a young Russian woman for her YT channel, ALL the young and bright people she questioned at random in the streets of Russia displayed exactly the same servility and mass delusion that they had no power over the current or any situation and needed their latter day Ivan the Fearful to restore their internet, their Apple Pay system, their McDonalds, their collective peace of mind. It's staggeringly sad.
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This mass immigration with all the quotidian privations it imposes on ordinary British citizens, especially in times of severe cost of living increases, is but one of the many difficulties nowadays faced by ordinary Brits that is explained by the careless, self-gratifying behaviour and rule-breaking of those in charge. 'Disgust' doesn't even begin to describe the reactions of people with normal, healthy quotas of integrity and propriety.
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@loubieloujones5698 Yes, now. There are local elections coming up.
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I thoroughly agree. We should take great heed of our courageous and clear-sighted, learned and wise people. They are so few, thus their words are all the more compelling.
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Well said.
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Indeed, rather a lapse of elegance and graciousness there.
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Indeed, though there's a quid pro quo underpinning all this callousness and moral laissez faire. If we were to become more bravely inquisitive, I believe we would find many more such mutually accommodating relationships between civil servants and government. It explains the degradation of so many of our public services.
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Indeed! Although they could be called 'culture wars' only if the mob, which is de facto an hegemony of feelings based on vanishingly little fact, were actually offering any culture...
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@earthstick Yet it's likely that without him there wouldn't have been the venture into the current format.
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