Theodore Dalrymple on Britain’s woke police and Oxford street chaos

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  • @fraggit
    @fraggit ปีที่แล้ว +269

    "Our public servants want to save the world, but they don't want to clear up the litter"...What a great analogy.

    • @jonathandnicholson
      @jonathandnicholson ปีที่แล้ว +15

      PJ O'Rourke said something similar: Everybody wants to save the world, but no-one wants to help Mum the dishes.

    • @bennym5244
      @bennym5244 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes there's not much glamour or money in picking up rubbish on a beach or lobbying China to scale back their fishing flotillas.

    • @count69
      @count69 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They SAY they want to save the world

    • @MamaJanella
      @MamaJanella ปีที่แล้ว

      Why would anyone bother with the litter if the world is burning?
      The young today are much better at seeing through bullshit than previous generations.

    • @bobsaturday4273
      @bobsaturday4273 ปีที่แล้ว

      sure , if they're "going to save the world" they'll start with resigning and checking into mental institutions for a long stay

  • @tomgeorgearts
    @tomgeorgearts ปีที่แล้ว +195

    I like his phrase 'virtual virtue' . A great synonym for wokeness.

    • @heroldable
      @heroldable ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah. great.

  • @stephenskinner3851
    @stephenskinner3851 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    "Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience" - Adam Smith

  • @markg3683
    @markg3683 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Excellent interview. However, I totally disagree with Dr. Dalrymple when he says that the police have no pride nowadays. And I have the rainbow photos to prove it!

  • @Olivia-lu3gg
    @Olivia-lu3gg ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Always enjoy listening to this man - calm, rational and uplifting

    • @goodtalker
      @goodtalker ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Another I like is Victor Davis Hanson.

    • @Olivia-lu3gg
      @Olivia-lu3gg ปีที่แล้ว

      @@goodtalker I like him too.

    • @goodtalker
      @goodtalker ปีที่แล้ว

      I like Dr. Daniels because of his insight in working in Corrections. I also worked in Corrections in California for 25 years. I never met an inmate who thought of himself as a victim. On the contrary, the idea that their incarceration was someone else’s fault would have been undignified. I heard it once, I heard a variant of the following hundreds of times: “My brother is an attorney and my sisters work for IBM. I put myself in this place. Growing up I was a screw up and wouldn’t listen to my parents.” IMHO, many people who work in various areas of “social work” know this to be true; but if the truth ever came out, in the words of the late great comic George Carlin, “the whole system would collapse.” Have a nice day. @@Olivia-lu3gg

    • @polarvortex3294
      @polarvortex3294 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm not sure he's "uplifting." Some of the information he has to convey about the state of British society seems pretty bleak to me!

  • @willianjohnam
    @willianjohnam ปีที่แล้ว +107

    I really recommend Dalrymple's books.
    They offer a very honest and some times funny insights on todays perils.

    • @user-li9yq2ws7s
      @user-li9yq2ws7s ปีที่แล้ว

      With a taint of arrogance

    • @faza553
      @faza553 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century
      by Jacob Siegel
      March 28, 2023

    • @Bytheirfruitsshall
      @Bytheirfruitsshall ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@user-li9yq2ws7sZero arrogance, he worked in A&E and prisons, there is no room for arrogance there.

  • @baysideharpy8350
    @baysideharpy8350 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    We emigrated from the UK almost 20 years ago and friends/family thought we were mad. Now they envy us.

  • @mjh5437
    @mjh5437 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    "Everything is degenerating and has been degenerationg for some time" is right....We`ve never recovered from the damage the Labour Party did between 1997 to 2010 under Blair & Brown.

    • @damianbutterworth2434
      @damianbutterworth2434 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I remember seeing all the drones dancing to "Things can only get better.". How wrong that was.

    • @Johnnymagnet92
      @Johnnymagnet92 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I would go back even further than that to the days of Thatcher

    • @DenianArcoleo
      @DenianArcoleo ปีที่แล้ว

      OP is a Partisan comment. I agree with 1by, Thatcher has a lot to answer for, not least the privatisation (and destruction) of what should be public utilities, energy, transport etc.

    • @faza553
      @faza553 ปีที่แล้ว

      Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
      by Andrzej Lobaczewski.
      “if an individual in a position of political power is a psychopath, he or she can create an epidemic of psychopathology
      in people who are not, essentially, psychopathic.”

    • @AmanitaWoodrose
      @AmanitaWoodrose ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Don't forget they sold our gold at a low price!

  • @csmiller5221
    @csmiller5221 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    My mother often quoted Cardinal Fulton Sheen: Societies ascend in hobnail boots and descend in silk slippers.

    • @MsHburnett
      @MsHburnett ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Very true ill quote that

    • @Brommear
      @Brommear ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bad times make for strong men, strong men make for good times, good times make for weak men.

    • @kaoskronostyche9939
      @kaoskronostyche9939 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Brommear AND weak men make bad times. Don't forget that part and that is where we are - weak men (and worthless, uppity women) making bad times. Cheers!

  • @csmiller5221
    @csmiller5221 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    What happened to parenting, taking personal responsibility, and looking out for your neighbors?

    • @deerinheadlights100
      @deerinheadlights100 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mass immigration and deracination of your culture, heritage and home. There is more but it is a purposeful deconstruction of our civilisation. The brave new world it is being replaced with looks un-human.

    • @stephenholmes1036
      @stephenholmes1036 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We help our neighbours

    • @Johnnymagnet92
      @Johnnymagnet92 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes we do too

    • @Katherine-wx1kh
      @Katherine-wx1kh ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So true. I won't stop this, I respect my neighbours always. So many have stopped this though. Shame!

    • @TheMOV13
      @TheMOV13 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly....well brought up people won't generally go around looting shops unless really desparate.

  • @archiebald4717
    @archiebald4717 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    The very idea that a swimming pool will stop gangs robbing shops is ludicrous. It is poor parenting, not a lack of things to do.

    • @cyclist68
      @cyclist68 ปีที่แล้ว

      Deep pockets full of other people's money until like Brum it comes off the rails

    • @Daisy-tl2lh
      @Daisy-tl2lh ปีที่แล้ว +9

      there's just too many of them and they're here that's the problem ...

    • @sephus99
      @sephus99 ปีที่แล้ว

      What if they make it a moat?

    • @archiebald4717
      @archiebald4717 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sephus99 As long as they drown, who cares?

    • @TheMOV13
      @TheMOV13 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Poor parenting or virtually no parenting at all. I personally deny any "White Privilege" but I will admit to having "Intact and loving family, consisting of a mum and a dad" privilege. It's extraordinary that so much focus is on White Privilege which, if it even exists, is pretty much homeopathic in it's weakness of dilution, whereas the advantages of growing up in a more-or-less functioning family with a mum and dad are clearly measurable. Yes, of course, single parents can do a great job bla bla bla etc etc.... but it simply isn't ideal and should be recognised as not being ideal.

  • @zoebatham1969
    @zoebatham1969 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    “Our public servants want to save the world but they don’t want to clear up the litter” - This!

  • @deerinheadlights100
    @deerinheadlights100 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Dalrymple's writings from his time as a prison psychologist and from witnessing the Burundi civil war are very interesting.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The one poor prediction he's made, as far as I know, was writing in about 1987 that Rwanda seemed like a peaceful society and would continue to be so in the future. But it's a mistake lots of other people made.

  • @simonrae3048
    @simonrae3048 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Exactly. Patriotism in France ,a sense of self identity compared to rudderless UK, drifting aimlessly.

  • @kenkeyes8148
    @kenkeyes8148 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Incontinent compassion....how true. Nothing anyone does is their fault.

  • @DJD10
    @DJD10 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Always love listening to Theodore Dalrymple.

  • @TheMOV13
    @TheMOV13 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I've lost my respect for the police as an institution too. I will however, respect individual police officers if they are doing their best under increasingly difficult circumstances. My family have benefitted from the work of conscientious officers over the past ten years or so.

  • @karinturkington2455
    @karinturkington2455 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "...living in some kind of dictatorship of virtue, but the virtue is virtual virtue; it's not real virtue." A perfect description of what is also happening here in Canada with our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau."

  • @encle
    @encle ปีที่แล้ว +39

    thanks for this. Mr Dalrymple is an important social commentator.

  • @lindalambert8727
    @lindalambert8727 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I can’t believe what has become of Britain since I left there 40 years ago! Where did all the native born white British go?

  • @dasglasperlenspiel10
    @dasglasperlenspiel10 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Dalrymple is almost always very interesting. I always enjoy hearing him, and even more, reading his books.

  • @JQ-999
    @JQ-999 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Fantastic interview and absolutely spot on from Theodore Dalrymple!

  • @johnatkinson7479
    @johnatkinson7479 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I grew up in the 80s on a semi rough estate..the criminally minded youth had no interest in "youth clubs" wether they were available or not

    • @itsallabouttherangers2698
      @itsallabouttherangers2698 ปีที่แล้ว

      We niver went to the local yourh club and we weren't involved in criminal activity!!.

    • @bennym5244
      @bennym5244 ปีที่แล้ว

      The real crime was the fact that people actually bought into this basic lie. It was always the go to excuse for gangs of lads to offer up journalists to explain their boorish behaviours.

  • @iwonahunter3350
    @iwonahunter3350 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I remember Dr. Daniels saying some years ago that dissatisfaction is one of the most common feelings experienced by us. I never felt depressed since.

  • @jamesmurphy9660
    @jamesmurphy9660 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    24:40 Theodore's answer sums up modern life in a way i hadn't heard before.

  • @tomtom21194
    @tomtom21194 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Very sober and interesting analysis. Enjoy listening to him, he makes sense

  • @rolandhawken6628
    @rolandhawken6628 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The reasons Britain is failing , Excess welfare, excess immigration , loss of manufacturing base . loss of discipline in schools ,over sexualisation of the population .

  • @jenniferbate9682
    @jenniferbate9682 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Our church youth club which took place in the church hall was great. But this was in the late 50’s. No drugs….but loads of music…games…fun…hikes…The society back then was linked to the church. Choirs, guides, scouts, concerts, all connected to the church…now, what have we done to change all this…why, and has it improved society today?? It’s gone….lost for ever!

    • @Tezzzaaa
      @Tezzzaaa ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I used to go to MAYC (methodist association of youth clubs) I'm not particularly religious but I reckon those amazing times saved me from going down rocky (rockier anyway) roads. I always look back with gratitude for those days of fellowship. We did loads, inc. london weekend every May but it was more about having positive compassionate mentoring role models around setting a decent example. I feel for the young trying to find the same virtually.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TD once wrote that it was believed there were around 150 drug addicts in the entire country in about 1950, and most of those were old ladies on various types of sleeping drugs.

    • @Tezzzaaa
      @Tezzzaaa ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ajs41 then a little later perhaps there came the fashionable slimming pills, amphetamines, again prescribed mainly to housewives.

  • @ramblinrog2767
    @ramblinrog2767 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Another great interview Steven.

  • @goodtalker
    @goodtalker ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Here in California we have 13 million people on Medi-Cal. It's terrible.

  • @TheMOV13
    @TheMOV13 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Family, family, family. Absent fathers.

  • @Brommear
    @Brommear ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The pride of Britain, the bobby on the beat, has become the laughing stock of the criminal world. The Thin Blue Line was prophetic!

  • @casparbenjaminseymour
    @casparbenjaminseymour ปีที่แล้ว +30

    i had a major accident in 2009 and to cut a long story short had to have the middle of my shin removed, wear an external fixator for 2.5 years whilst the two ends grew closer to each other and then joined. I had somewhere between 25-30 ops across 4 different hospitals, the main one being the BRI with the last one operation in 2017 to have pins and screws taken out. It felt like i lost everything from girlfriend to my job but the staff gave me hope and evenutally gave me life backi recovered can now walk although running isnt an option!
    My story is one of many that the NHS have served and saved in its lifetime and is the pride of our country. The generation that fought ww2 came home having seen horrors and rather than resentment tried to build a better fairer world. The NHS creation being one of those things. I worry about its future as i can see a time where a government part or fully privatises it. I pray this never happens as it has helped so many of us

    • @deerinheadlights100
      @deerinheadlights100 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Sure, but the British population was very different back then.

    • @thomasherrin6798
      @thomasherrin6798 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are majorly the same but the politicians don't bloody listen!?!

    • @bennym5244
      @bennym5244 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember when my friends in the media used to defend the BBC to the hilt. They said the BBC would always help struggling comics, actors and writers. Look what's happened to the BBC now. Institutions change. I went to A&E last week with fractured ribs after falling and an infection of pneumonia. I was in such pain. After 8 hours they told me to buy some paracetamol and ring my GP in a week or so. Other times in the past they've been great.

  • @cavendish009
    @cavendish009 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Too many illegal immigrants so this country does not feel as if it belongs to us - THE ENGLISH ???!!!!!!

    • @cavendish009
      @cavendish009 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      THEY are also treated extremely WELL by our government whereas WE ARE NOT !!

    • @jumpingman6612
      @jumpingman6612 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Enoch Powell comes to mind

  • @brocmin7933
    @brocmin7933 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Thanks for addressing Mrs. Thatcher's and Mr. Blair's responsibilities in the deterioration of the UK's social cohesion.

    • @bramcoteelectrical1088
      @bramcoteelectrical1088 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😮and councils following common purpose doctrine
      Look up " common purpose "

    • @benjaminshiels1824
      @benjaminshiels1824 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ppl not realising it are truly delusional!

    • @Susan-kd3rv
      @Susan-kd3rv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Marxist Common purpose exposed uk look 👀 up run councils.

    • @bramcoteelectrical1088
      @bramcoteelectrical1088 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Susan-kd3rv yes common purpose is very nerfifous and all about distorting the family unit unfortunately and making us divided.

  • @isabelhernaez4617
    @isabelhernaez4617 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I hold a lot of respect for Theodore Dalrymple. He seems compassionate, knowledgeable and principled, and his irreligiosity and stance on Freud's theories makes me trust him even more.

  • @murrayeldred3563
    @murrayeldred3563 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    EXCELLENT DISCUSSION.

  • @sandraelder1101
    @sandraelder1101 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Incontinently emotional”. Yes!

  • @robwilton9539
    @robwilton9539 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Oh how I wish I was born thirty years before I was. I would be dead now. Personal computers have had 40 years to destroy society, our work ethic and our ability to solve problems. AI will be the final nail in the coffin.

    • @horse69outside
      @horse69outside ปีที่แล้ว

      Our lives are being sacrificed chasing the holy grails of technology and Transhumanism.

  • @ThisIsJamesL
    @ThisIsJamesL ปีที่แล้ว +11

    *An hour spent skirting around the issue **#demographics**. Indigenous Britons a minority in our own ancestral homeland by the 2060s*

  • @jessesewell7922
    @jessesewell7922 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love this man

  • @WindowsOfPhotography
    @WindowsOfPhotography ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These issues are happening everywhere in the Western World. How did this happen?

    • @jumpingman6612
      @jumpingman6612 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Look up Oswald Spengler. There is more to it, but he was quite prophetic.
      I can also recommend Thomas Sowell. How the anointed corrups and destroys the society.

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@jumpingman6612
      Please recommend some specific book titles. Thanks.

  • @monsieurfoupierre
    @monsieurfoupierre ปีที่แล้ว +18

    One minute they are all Women hating narcissists, and now they are all too woke - so what is it then?

  • @93jElwood
    @93jElwood ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Our public servants want to save the world but not pick up the litter!

  • @Scott.Silburn
    @Scott.Silburn ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Incredible how quickly & seemingly completely the world has changed in the last 50 years...
    Change is constant I suppose...

  • @JPB-zu6wd
    @JPB-zu6wd ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This man is right up my street, what a clever sane and intelligent gent. Should be prime minister. he speaks volume about are present day so called MP's. "Virtual Virtue' "Britains are victims" Blair Brown, Thatcher, Johnson, Sunnak all should be or should have been held accountable for the downfall of my once great country.

  • @prboddington
    @prboddington ปีที่แล้ว +14

    In Britain, most people working in public services treats the public they are serving as some kind of enemy they have to fob off

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 ปีที่แล้ว

      The last time I visited my NHS surgery in December 2019 I was shouted at in an extremely rude way by the nurse I was seeing. Haven't been back since. I managed not to lose my temper, and slightly dumbfounded her by remaining polite despite her attitude. I think she wanted me to shout back at her, and then she could have complained about it and tried to blame the whole thing on me.

  • @mywholesomechannel
    @mywholesomechannel ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There is a feeling amongst Brits that these are the last days of our country. The place has become an international free-for-all.

    • @horse69outside
      @horse69outside ปีที่แล้ว

      Smart phones dumb populace. NWO incoming.

  • @stephenholmes1036
    @stephenholmes1036 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I too have lost all respect for Gloucestershire police utterly useless. I had them lie and try to hide their lies and eventually got it out into the open.

    • @petergaskin1811
      @petergaskin1811 ปีที่แล้ว

      How many officers are they short of their pre-2010 establishment.

    • @stephenholmes1036
      @stephenholmes1036 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @petergaskin1811 it was their professionalism or rather the lack, lack of evidence gathering Being lied too etc.
      The OPCC did an investigation its was 10 pages long and Gloucestershire police got taken to the cleaners in the report.
      I got a full apology from a senior officer. An inspector who said it was a black day for Gloucestershire police and tge Sergeant was transfered.

  • @johnsmith-rs2vk
    @johnsmith-rs2vk ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All part of Blair 's Education . education , education .

  • @tonykhoury5522
    @tonykhoury5522 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great interview

  • @Niko5black
    @Niko5black ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We have to accept there is no police force.

  • @draoi99
    @draoi99 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why is insulin so much more expensive in the US compared to other countries? Some sort of malfunction happening in the healthcare market?

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lots of things are more expensive in the United States. When I go to the dentist here in England it usually costs about $75. I think it probably costs a lot more in the US.

    • @twentyrothmans7308
      @twentyrothmans7308 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not all insulin is the same, but I agree that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark.

    • @lindamorgan4604
      @lindamorgan4604 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes its called greed

    • @DC3Refom
      @DC3Refom ปีที่แล้ว

      Because there is a corporate monopoly with Pharama companies and no regulations on pricing

  • @Johnnymagnet92
    @Johnnymagnet92 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I think what this country needs is another event of tremendous difficulty in which we need to pull together. Covid wasnt bad enough. WW2 was a bit too bad soni wouldnt want that again. We're too soft.

  • @seanbrink3993
    @seanbrink3993 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oh these quiet voices of conservatism...Scruton,Dalrymple et al,are slowly fading.

  • @nogorman560
    @nogorman560 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He is correct

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My partner of 25 years has been on SSRI anti depressants for the kast 30years. It doesn't seem to help but she can't manage to come off them.
    She has a poor grasp on life and has always had trouble making her way in life.
    I am thoroughly cynical about the whole mental health sector.

    • @sarahharris2729
      @sarahharris2729 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      that sounds like executive function issues, not necessarily depression. are they neurodiverse? trouble grasping life isn't usual your whole life. If its depression it will have on set at a definite point.

    • @amaryllisequistra
      @amaryllisequistra ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Finally, finally the truth about how damaging (and extremely difficult to come off) these drugs are is coming out, even in the mainstream; even the RC of Psychiatrists is admitting that these drugs are very problematic and overprescribed. I wish your partner well if she tries to come off them.

    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sarahharris2729
      *she

    • @Tom_Quixote
      @Tom_Quixote ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sarahharris2729 It's not a "they". It's a "she".

  • @SamtheIrishexan
    @SamtheIrishexan ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good question about the Americanization of what it means to be British. I dont think it was American influence per say, Britain and America grew alongside eachother culturally. But we have changed towards global westerners. They have to defeat your cultural identity and religion to be able to destroy nations as powerful as ours. The soveits and Russians, and more lately also Chinese and other state actors, have been practicing grey zone wsrfare corrupting our culture and there is at least one generation of progressives who are completely lost to ideological ignorance.

  • @simonaatkinson5646
    @simonaatkinson5646 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Since when was Britain's population 65 million?

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's about 68 million now.

  • @NealeTurner
    @NealeTurner ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Communal dancing is the greatest route to a happy existence

  • @mrpolsco6872
    @mrpolsco6872 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Change the Demographics change the culture.

  • @mc.8391
    @mc.8391 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I certainly dont buy the idea that healthcare prior to the NHS was quite good in this country. For ordinary working class it most certainly was not. I remember how it was for my Mum and Dad and their family. Possibly for Mr Dalrymple's family it was a different story.

    • @HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob
      @HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well the NHS is certainly unfit for purpose right now. Unless it's purpose is to waste millions on diversity and inclusivity managers, over-prescription of medicines and GP salaries of 100,000 pounds for three day weeks.

  • @richardallan2767
    @richardallan2767 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wonder why life has deteriorated? I mean, we know who and what we have been voting for, so let's start there.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If people spend a lot of their time comparing themselves to the wealthiest, most physically attractive people in the world, they're automatically going to be depressed and annoyed. No-one used to seriously do that until about 15 years ago. People used to like Marilyn Monroe, but they didn't get envious of her.

  • @stevensarson482
    @stevensarson482 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In other words, hardly an unsupervised and socially managed moment, with the state acting in loco parentis on a more or less permanent basis and an end to individual responsibility. As the song suggests: I’m only human after all, don’t put the blame on me’. An alternative version of an Anthem For Doomed Youth.

  • @allenomalley4014
    @allenomalley4014 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Multi cultural is the problem not people of different race creed etc but the narrative should be we are one we are many but we are British proud and a force for good

    • @melvynslote457
      @melvynslote457 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      different races have different cultures , so the narrative will never be as one but different., only homogeneous societies have any cohesion.

    • @softcolly8753
      @softcolly8753 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "Diversity is our greatest strength". The idea that the less people have in common, the more harmoniously they will live and work together. Obvious innit?

    • @HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob
      @HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Multi-culturalism was foisted on us as a hastily penned concept to get us to accept mass immigration without putting up a fight. We have gained some nice ethnic restaurants at the price of a total lack of social cohesion in our city centres, and a loss of national identity.
      The UK is now a scruffy world dormitory.

  • @athelstan927
    @athelstan927 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating.. the moment he heard a criticism of 'his' profession he backtracked and defended it! Lets get it right GPs over prescribe.. they are too willing to take the easy way out!why? Because the consequences are not theirs to pick up! I like him alot for all that!

  • @sthvdhjii2667
    @sthvdhjii2667 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    long lived Great Britain! now sun's geting real low

    • @teresahall8762
      @teresahall8762 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Try and contain your glee....not as low as the setting in Russia or China....

    • @Erekose-r6q
      @Erekose-r6q ปีที่แล้ว

      @@teresahall8762 Russia maybe, but Chinas sun is rising. China will emerge as the superpower of the 21st century.

    • @doffy2192
      @doffy2192 ปีที่แล้ว

      F the uk and move to blugera

  • @linmal2242
    @linmal2242 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Has this been 're-posted' from an earlier listing? I seem to have seen it months/year ago. Does this happen much with stuff on Y T , anyone? This occurs to me frequently, that I seem to have seen it yonks ago and here it is Y T saying that it is only 1 month old !

  • @louiseparker1915
    @louiseparker1915 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yes indeed. I had my garden vandalised by the freeholder. The police don't give a monkey's.

    • @tishknight
      @tishknight ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They are scared of the monkeys.

  • @christinehill1038
    @christinehill1038 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What does Hitchens think would have happened if the American GI's had not come to Britain during WWII? Perhaps all the Gaullist could have gone back behind their Maginot Line and defeated Hitler.

  • @sallyedwards2400
    @sallyedwards2400 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ‘The ping pong table theory of wickedness’. He is 100 per cent correct. He has stared wickedness in the face and so have I.

  • @factdaddy7586
    @factdaddy7586 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    People should stop crying over change of society ,it will take place one way or the other.

  • @birgitjevremovic9783
    @birgitjevremovic9783 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    there are barely any English people left in the UK. London is not English anymore.

    • @DC3Refom
      @DC3Refom ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@ravenhill_of_midsummer_1968Up North which increases house prices , food everything up here

  • @michaelsmith473
    @michaelsmith473 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Funny, same issues in every western country. Funny.

  • @andrewstevens7453
    @andrewstevens7453 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Many decent people feel the same 😢

  • @mariamichael1669
    @mariamichael1669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s interesting to note that in the Western world many people “suffer from depression “ and must take medication. Had they been born in a poor country whereby putting food on the table was at the forefront of their daily routine perhaps depression would be less of an issue.
    Alas, the spoilt westerner syndrome!

  • @clawsewitz4316
    @clawsewitz4316 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He has a hard time saying,' in France the illegal migrants are kept apart. "

  • @edbaker515
    @edbaker515 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Remember this all started under Cameron may Johnson sunik conservative progressive woke government s.......so i have to hold my nose at the next election to vote conservative...not a happy person

  • @Ninapia347
    @Ninapia347 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He said his life is perfectly reasonable but everything is doom and gloom for everyone else. People everywhere love to complain. I think it’s BS.

  • @fuzzydunlop1000
    @fuzzydunlop1000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Theo's in France lamenting the state of England, I remember growing up with him on the council estate..😂

  • @linmorell1813
    @linmorell1813 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As someone whose family were miners he has no idea of what he’s talking about working conditions and health care.

  • @tonkabeancat1117
    @tonkabeancat1117 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm relieved that Mr Dalrymple in this interview comes across as possessing equanimity and constructive comment. Years ago, I remember gasping at his unrestrained pessimism week after week in his column in The Spectator (I was thinking that he must be paid to be so).
    Maybe, living in the midst of the French language, he cannot avoid a certain visceral joy- whatever the subject being discussed?

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He's always been optimistic despite writing about pessimistic things. That's what I like about him.

    • @tonkabeancat1117
      @tonkabeancat1117 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ajs41 I always admired his column- reading from Australia- but marvelled at level of self deprecation in England (compared with hyper defensiveness in my former country)

  • @SB-yq8uo
    @SB-yq8uo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I will invest in ping pong tables as I know they will never learn :-)

  • @oldspammer
    @oldspammer ปีที่แล้ว

    My comment was about how slave wages are being imposed has the effect of cancelling of competency.

  • @ukchris64
    @ukchris64 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A very interesting video, I agree thereapy does not really work, neither does medication, therapy in someways makes me more depressed. yes I am emotionally unstable, and unstable in mind in general.

  • @stevedriver1476
    @stevedriver1476 ปีที่แล้ว

    People in Australia get charged then let out because the jails are full.

  • @nickstone3113
    @nickstone3113 ปีที่แล้ว

    All true..

  • @The_Custos
    @The_Custos ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant story about the police.

  • @debraengland3827
    @debraengland3827 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dalrymple says "I don't think this kind of historical blame is useful." Although I think he is one of the most important modern intellectuals alive today, I think he has this completely wrong. Understanding First Causes, Root Causes & historical antecedents to contemporary problems is NOT merely an exercise in "historical blame". As the Santayana quote posted in front of Auschwitz attests: Those who forget the past are bound to repeat it. The warning is not only to remember, but also to UNDERSTAND. When Dalrymple misguidedly deflects this line of questioning by calling it "historical blame", he stops what is actually a crucially important attempt to understand the complex origins of how & why we have descended into the contemporary problems we face.

    • @Englishman999
      @Englishman999 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's entirely proper to understand history, there is much to be learned by doing so. It's also entirely proper and possible to understand it whilst avoiding seeking blame by looking through present day views. We have to see history as a thing of it's time.
      The UK is in large part where it is today entirely because it looks to find a 'whipping boy' for everything it dislikes in life, rather than see the truth behind it's maladies and to then take responsibility for them.

  • @Moon-Labs
    @Moon-Labs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This needs to be resurrected -

  • @userccvv
    @userccvv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What is the exact name of the book Dr. Dalrymple is referring to (cannot find Sands Everything).

  • @paulhwbooth
    @paulhwbooth ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When reading the Riot Act in Oxford Street remember to end with 'God Save the King' otherwise it won't be valid.

  • @walter77ify
    @walter77ify ปีที่แล้ว

    As he speaks from his Mediterranean idyll. I do agree with him, he is speaking the obvious.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He's married to a French doctor. That's why he lives in France a lot of the time. The rest of the time he lives in Bridgnorth which is near where I live in England.

  • @mariamichael1669
    @mariamichael1669 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When governments encourage fatherless families sadly this is the outcome. Also, previous and subsequent governments and privatised all our utilities therefore everyone seems to pass the buck rather than take responsibility, thus no pride!
    Similarly, our governments have encouraged the demise of our once beautiful and great country by encouraging every foreigner to come to these shores, bringing with them their own culture, religion and indeed their mother country ideologies and wanting to change the UK to suit their cultural needs. Many not contributing anything to the taxation system instead take rather than give……. The end of Rome…… sad times.

  • @khankrum1
    @khankrum1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The poorer citizen's do NOT have a " perfectly reasonable life"!

  • @jimmock1155
    @jimmock1155 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The society has, for the most part, lost its reverence for God and his precepts….It’s as simple as that, but they will point the finger everywhere else except that. To blame anything else is to look at the symptoms and not the disease.

  • @heikeschroeder8538
    @heikeschroeder8538 ปีที่แล้ว

    Incontinentaly emotional 😆😆😆
    But, I would ask: isn’t the reluctance of police to do anything these days is the result of “defunding the police” and criticizing the police, like they have been doing in North America, rather than holding them in esteem ? The guest’s comments regarding the failure of courts to convict are true here inCanada as well.

  • @Silsoe123
    @Silsoe123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The old adage idle hands are the devils.

  • @Zara-jl5zw
    @Zara-jl5zw ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Corruption, train lines ,games , mega infrastructure, padgents , expense scams , phoney science reports , London London London London

  • @silviacicardini5259
    @silviacicardini5259 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes all they want is to give medication...it's easy for them....maybe they make money from that.....but they don't care about about your problems

    • @silviacicardini5259
      @silviacicardini5259 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or care about them...my psychologist looked at his watch and kept yawning from Kaiser

    • @silviacicardini5259
      @silviacicardini5259 ปีที่แล้ว

      Needless to say I took care of it myself