Comments by "DS9TREK" (@DS9TREK) on "David Starkey Talks" channel.

  1. My first thought before watching is she was a liberal in the Gladstonian sense, not the modern usage of the word.
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  2. Thanks for uploading these. It's wonderful to see them again.
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  3. So you're part of cancel culture then, Ricky Ric? Shame on you. I disagree on making vaccines mandatory but I can still respect someone who disagrees with me. You and your cancel culture that you clearly support are all that is wrong with modern Britain.
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  4. Dr Starkey's point was that the Constitution creates the polarisation by giving the impression there are absolute rights and even a sense of absolute right and wrong. Even in the state legislatures compromise is hard to to come by because both sides see themselves as being on the side of absolute right. And so any compromise is seen as a step too far because it is an automatic betrayal of your absolute uncompromisable values.
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  5. I'm happy to see this series again.
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  6. 70 years ago Churchill predicted what's now called Canzuk would become one country and later merge with the US. I wonder if he'll ever be proved right.
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  7. It's nice to see the channel has some life still in it.
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  8. That's... fiction
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  9. It is
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  10. Thatcher had too much respect for the concept of monarchy to abolish it. The House of Lords she probably wouldn't even gone as far as Blair's reforms. I mean, she took a peerage and seat in the Lord's. She obviously supported it to some degree.
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  11. Everything you just said is false because you assume your values are the world's values. They're not. Go to Afghanistan and tell the Taliban music is valued universally. The Taliban have of course banned music as unIslamic. Even your example of murder fails the test of being universal because you'll never get the world to agree on what constitutes murder. I'd say the Holocaust was murder because I'm actually sane. But you'll find plenty of neo-Nazi's who'll argue otherwise. Likewise in Ukraine... I call shelling cities murder. Putin calls it liberation.
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  12. It's a shame you left out the audience Q&A session
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  13. Payne was hardly writing with an open mind though. He had already decided the colonies needed independence and was going to use any argument to bring the public opinion to his side.
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  14.  @docwhat8370  the distance between the British Isles and the American colonies wasn't the big issue you'd expect. When California was made a state in 1850 it was actually more difficult to travel from it, on the west coast, to Washington DC, on the east coast, than it was to travel across the Atlantic in the 1770s. So Californian delegates would have to sail around the Americas from West coast to East for almost two decades until the transcontinental railway was built. And still the Americans managed to make it work.
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  15. What difference would an English parliament make? It would be a 'devolved' parliament ruling over 57m as opposed to the UK parliament ruling over 68m. The British parliament is the English parliament in everything but name.
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  16.  @1who4me  the Founder Father's didn't create anything new. They took English principles and wrote them down
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  17. Starkey has a particular accent. I raise an eyebrow at more than one of his pronouncations
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  18.  @RichMitch  that counts as live for the purpose of the TV licence. Live in the legislation is defined as watching a programme as it is broadcast.
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  19. He does make little slips, but age does it to the best of us
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  20. I'd like him to but I doubt he will. The BBC and Channel 4 both seem to have blacklisted him since the mob attempted to cancel him
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  21. Students today are taught the test, not the wider subject.
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  22. Or at the very least elect prime ministers who understand history. Churchill wrote history to a distinguished level, and Thatcher read history religiously. Since her we've had prime ministers with heads either in the clouds or stuck up their own rear ends.
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  23. @Big Bazza there's photographic evidence of Boris at parties
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  24. Starkey isn't a professor
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  25. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You've provided none.
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  26. He was dull but brutal when needed. When the Tsar was overthrown in Russia, Prime Minister Lloyd George arranged for the Tsar and his family to be brought to the safety of England. But George V opposed their arrival fearing it would encourage his overthrow in the UK. So he implored Lloyd George to cancel the rescue but the prime minister refused to even consider it because the Tsars wife and 3 daughters were British citizens. So the king went to individual cabinet members and scared them, with tales of revolution, into supporting him and asking them to pressure the prime minister. In the end, Lloyd George decided to hold a vote of the cabinet and follow the majority view. They voted to side with the King. And the rescue was cancelled. A short time later, George V's beloved cousin Tsar Nicholas II and his British wife and daughters were taken down to a dark dingy basement and executed by firing squad.
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  27. He was asked whether the North Atlantic slave trade was genocide. Starkey answered that if it had been genocide "there wouldn't be so many damned blacks in Africa or in Britain". I had my head in my hands when he said it. It was one small misspoken word that caused so much damage to his reputation.
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  28.  @earthstick  no, his great grandfather was a Turk.
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  29.  @uingaeoc3905  why not?
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  30. It's true, and he doesn't mean it as a bad thing.
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  31. You make it sound like he has a choice. The BBC and Channel Four won't work with him, he's still cancelled in their eyes.
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  32. How can the Declaration of Independence be an Act of Congress if Congress didn't exist at the time?
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  33.  @thehound9638  no, the clock has been stopped at that time regardless of the time of day he makes a video. It obviously has some meaning to him.
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  34. It's only a few days old. Note he refers to the Queen's health as of last week.
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  35.  @semperterra3235  YouTube is a job, do you work your profession for free? If so, you're a rare breed, butwhy should Starkey do the same?
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  36. The monarch can't be arrested by police or judged by courts... Apart from the court of parliament. A law breaking king can always be impeached.
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  37. He's an atheist though. I thought god disliked is atheists.
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  38. So who is the hope then if the Anglosphere fails? The EU? Perhaps France or Belgium?
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  39.  @hannannah1uk  Blair hasn't been ennobled, he's been knighted.
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  40.  @itsjudystube7439  those Scots MPs barely have a say. There's only been one occasion where a majority of English MPs voted against an English-only thing and Scots MPs pushed it through. That was foundation hospitals during the Blair years.
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  41.  @anothersucker-Youcantfixstupid  devolution is a good thing. It was always one of England's historic strengths. Other empires like the Spanish fell while the British thrived because of devolution to the colonies. Cities like Manchester could plan, fund and build canals without any interference from central government, and that led to better government at a local level. The centralisation we have now is a project of the 20th century that began with the first world war, and it hasn't exactly led to better government has it? Our mission should be to reverse the centralisation of government, not pretend it's a good thing.
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  42. Unfair comparison. Henry VIII was bound and restricted by Parliament, plus Henry VIII could never order anyone to be executed, despite the myths. He would order that people were put on trial. Trial by jury no less.
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  43.  @ollie1984a  🙄
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  44. He did have a home in New England but he sold it not so long ago, so I'm not sure he spends too much time in the US these days.
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  45. You lose the argument when you throw around words like "fascist" and "nazi" willy-nilly
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  46. It was an event with more than one speaker.
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  47. Was Henry VIII trouble when he was Duke of York?
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  48. Visuals are never rubbish. You're being a bit snobbish there.
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  49. I think Gove could be compared to them. He's highly competent but also a bit slimey and not afraid to delve into the dark arts. I mean, look at how he stabbed Boris innthe back. Gove didn't bother to try hiding it.
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  50. The Scots only have the right to their own banknotes. The coinage was united by the Act of Union 1707.
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