“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell 1984
British empire met its sunset,since war monger Churchill dug a tomb for the Nation step by step:Boer war,Gallipoli disaster ww1,Norway fiasco , Attack on Mers El-Kebir (thousand French sailor deaths 1940), Bengal famine (30 million souls perished) etc.He promoted a war,but didn't have muscle to show in Poland & Dunkirk theaters. He dragged the world (Canada,Australia,New Zealand,South Africa,India,and USA) into flames in order to preserve the Empire; and fostered monster Soviet communism to poison the entire world . Britain is the one deserved most blames for sacrificing millions of lives during and after WW2.
One of the criminals who tore down the Colston statue, appeared on BBC Breakfast a few weeks later, and was treated like a national hero by Naga Munchetty. When people show you who they are...
A democratic process regarding the removal of the Colston statue had taken place - the local community decided not to take the statue down. Some out of towners decided the locals where wrong, came to town and ripped it down. It was rank, mob criminality.
I’M PROUD OF OUR COUNTRY, GREAT BRITAIN IS CALLED THAT FOR A REASON , READ THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN ..DON’T LISTEN TO GASLIGHTING. WOKE OR ANYONE DEI PEOPLE. STAND UP FOR ENGLAND AND BRITAIN…BE PROUD 🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
@@Marcthered Many conflicts are yet to unfold. We still must pay attention to the past.. Teaching point sir, for the up and new comer youthful generations.
Qué importante es respetar la historia para aprender de ella. Las tradiciones de cada país , deben ser,sagradamente, respetadas.Ahi están nuestras raíces y nuestra identidad y nuestro sentido de pertenencia.Hay que luchar por ello,sin complejos y con determinación. Magnífica entrevista.Gracias GB NEWS
What a superb advert for GB News. Two intelligent people having an informed and objective discussion about an important subject. Bravo GB News. C4, Bbc, Sly news, itv take note.
I'm proud to be British, and proud to be English. I despise Leftist historical revisionism, and the revival of guilt by association upon which this revisionism depends.
@@dsmith4658 This is the man who was the founder of the British Revolutionary Communist Party back in the 80s. Playing both sides to perfection, just as the usual script goes 👁️👃👁️
Why do they never call out the Turkish Ottoman empire, one of the most brutal empires in history (Armenian genocide etc) Because the brutality fits in nicely with their agenda
I'm sick and tired of being told that my countrys history is shameful and I should feel guilty For a start, nothing in the universe gets to judge me for who I am Secondly, I'm proud of our history and all of our historical achievements People act as though no other country in the world has done bad things in their past Whinging about some issue that happened hundreds of years ago means nothing to me
@martynblackburn9632 Like I said, if you'd bother to read I'm proud of it all, even the bad parts So, go on Hate me Despise me! I want to see that rage and anger boiling in your eyes 😄
If the Belgians can keep a hold of King Leopold 2's statues then we can keep ours. If Chairman Mao still has a mausoleum( which he does) then why allow people who want to break up the UK have their way with this? Let us acknowledge the division, agree to differ and keep the statues. What I am not interested in doing is being lectured by individuals who want to manipulate history to suit their narrative.
My ancient Celtic ancestors valued and cherished their bards, carriers of the history, values and culture, for good reason. When they rewrite your history, they are trying to distort the present, and steal your future. Resist.
It's all about communist ideological subversion. There are 4 stages. Demoralisation, destabilisation, crisis, and normalisation. We're currently between stages 1 & 2 and they've tried stage 3 already.
Your political party should come way after your constituency, including those that did not vote for you. Your party should come after your country, after your family, which is your choice to be a politician that your family does not come first. Your party is the least of what should be important to you.
Portillo is wrong. The Bristol statue should not have been torn down. The man, who was a great philanthropist, was a product of his time, when these things were viewed in a completely different way. You could probably find reasons, if you look hard enough, to denigrate many, or even most, great historical figures, and remove their statues or other memorials. It is sheer stupidity to judge these people by the softer standards of today. It seems like they are expected to have been perfect, which is ludicrous.
I would be surprised if Portillo disagreed with Furedi's point of view (or indeed, yours). I think that as a good interviewer, and to show balance, he was questioning Furedi's views by presenting an alternative viewpoint. GB News is strongly monitored by OFCOM to show balance, with the potential threat of being closed down.
In Colchester we have three roads named after the victors of WW2 including Stalin. They mark our collective past and inform us. If we know of Stalin we can critique his legacy but cannot if he is erased .
"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."- Milan Kundera
Look at many of the statues produced today, be it a loss of skill or aesthetic the fact is we don’t even seem to be able to reproduce these statues as artistic objects.
We are not even responsible for what our grandparents or grandparents did or any of our ancestors, so we should not be collectively responsible for anything that happened in history.
What is happening in the UK is eerily reminiscent of post war Hungary: everything, ideas, art, literature, history past and present was subjugated to a marxist soviet totalitarian ideological lens. It destroyed or at best vitiated original, creative thought, intellectual risk taking and all that was rich and complex was subordinated to the narrow, oppressive, pontificating will of the "state." Just visit Statue Park in Budapest to see the triumph of the banal, the mediocre and totalitarianism.
Erasing histroy means you cannot learn from it whether it right or wrong. It's part of the human condition that allows us to see: where we were to where we are now to where we are going. You can't change someone else's story, only your own. Great conversation in general that applies to all cultures regardless of race!
As to the museums scouring their collections for perceived fault, may I point out the clearly blind destructive example of artifact destruction throughout the Middle East? We will want to be better than that always.
The difference between celebrations the toppling of a statue of a living, ruling tyrant; and celebrating the toppling of a statue of someone like Colston is this: The tyrant had oppressed the people that did the toppling. Colston had been long dead. Not to mention the reason their statues were up in the first place. The tyrant puts up a statue of himself to remind the people of their place. The city chose to put up a statue of Colston because of the contributions he made to the city. The fact that he engaged in slavery is irrelevant. Everyone engaged in slavery at the time.
Not that I deny someone may have a grievance about a statue, I just don't care how they feel. Now they're complaining about the memorial for Queen Victoria's husband. They are erasing the term Anglo Saxon because they don't want Brits to have any identity at all! 4:29 Please DON'T compare Thomas Colsten to Saddem Hussein. Half or more of the people who want to tear down British statues don't originate from the UK or Europe! They others are insane. The British Museums are disgusting. Of course white history in Europe is filled with statues and paintings of white European people! 😫😫 You don't see people in India, China or African countries tearing down their history because they are examples of the same race.
Re-writing history is sinister and misguided. Mistakes take us forward if we're objective about what we are trying to achieve and what we are trying to become.
Well said Professor Furedi. We need more voices like yours and The New Cultural Forum, Matt Goodwin, David Starskey, Reform. Yeh we don't lecture Banksy on his/her stupid paintings. Why pick on our greats like Constable and Shakespeare. We are told that there has always been blk people in the country so they can justify diversity. We are continually told that the Windrush generation rebuilt this country after the war.....
Shouldn’t we have the ability and freedom to acknowledge All aspects of history? Obliterating what was true, what happened, doesn’t serve anyone, doesn’t change us or teach us. We can’t observe, analyze, improve or evolve if we constantly throw away the proof. This trend results in a dumbing down of society: A new trend of “cosmetic surgery” of what happened. Change the ugly truth to something attractive. The acceptance of this takes away freedom of thought.
If we do not preserve history and historical figures how can we learn from history and what works and does not the dictators shaped the world because leaders who was not dictators saw their model and what worked and did not for progression.
Why hasn't Cleopatra's Needle been thrown into the Thames. Was Colston a worse user of slaves than the then Egyptians who originally made the obelisk ? One wonders why revisionists criticism has been so selective.
@@hydraV1-c7d Yes and get money and power, we all know that is the point. Hilarious that these types don't see it as racism! I'm not ashamed of were I come from if the young want to believe it is there problem. The Education Departments of the West needs to shoulder a lot of these lies!
We have definitely been made to feel embarrassed and ashamed about British history,our very monarchy and democracy. Meanwhile, some people demand Shari'a law, a new caliphate and sultanate! Britain was the first country to abolish slavery and the British navy flying the Union jack flag was pivotal in breaking the global slave trade! Meanwhile, slavery can still be seen in all of its ugly glory in parts of Africa and the middle east. Where Shari'a law exists, the minority religions are oppressed! In some countries and their interpretation of the sharia law the girls are denied proper education and the women are oppressed!
If anyone is to criticise any Empire, historically, it must be done logically by examining what it replaced and what replaced it and what were its effects on those who lived under its rule.
I'm proud of my country and it's achievements. You cannot (or shouldn't be able to) change history or the fact that we needed things like fossil fuel to survive regarding climate change which is another ideology. They go hand in hand with trying to change history.
Just watched enjoyable trip around Ottoman Empire that took it from Roman Empire. Accolades of Ottoman generals adorn city walls . British Empire deserves equal honesty & respect
We may have had a little dust up now and then(1776,1812), but this American citizen is profoundly grateful to Great Britain for begetting the United States. Where one comes from informs us of who we are.
'The constant lying is not aimed at making people believe a lie, but ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.A people who can no longer distinguish between right and wrong and such a people ,deprived of power to think and judge , is without knowing and willing it,completely subjected to the rules of lies , with such a people you can do whatever you want' Hannah Arendt Greman / American historian and philosopher
Every has a past good and bad but their is a war against our country that if your white British and proud of this country then you should be ashamed i say no be proud and stand up for your country
History is just that, it's done and gone and cannot be altered. If I know that I will be offended by something or someone, I dont go there or look at or listen to whatever or whoever it is.
I live in a city in Arizona, USA. They recently appointed a Diversity Director, a new position that never existed before. The first thing they did was to seek out every street name and every name of a park that had any association with slavery, then they renamed them all after supposedly important local black or Hispanic people.
I would prefer that they remain in place and there be information alongside, explaining the history and context, honestly, why they are considered hero and why they are also considered a villain, and the context of the world at the time, domestically and internationally. If controversial figures are placed in museums, they will not reach the majority of the public and I think it should be in the public realm. If there are statues that are very deeply controversial, then perhaps a museum might be appropriate. I do not agree with tolerating just anyone or a group unilaterally deciding to destroy anything.
The interviewer is TOXIC and NEGATIVE right from the start. Turn the sound off and look at his negative face. We learn from our mistakes but we learn more from being positive too.
I don't believe Portillo is woke, having seen him talk and present on other occasions. In questioning Furedi he was presenting the alternative viewpoint to bring out Furedi's views in more detail, and show balance. The interview worked very well.
7:57 - We could, in theory, give him "the ability to answer back" artificially, using RAG technology, by feeding all of his writings into a vector store and chatting via an LLM. Although it's incapable of communicating directly as himself, it's as close as AI can get us to how he might reply to any questions. There's quite a few caveats though; accuracy depends on the amount and quality of his writings, as well as his honesty regarding his own beliefs. And the questions asked must be fully understandable to him, using words, phrases, situations and circumstances common in his time rather than in our time.
We should learn from the past, not remain anchored to it. Those whom wish to fundamentally change our society, don't care a toss about injustice, they have an agenda and they will use whatever means necessary to achieve it.
British people are not "still obsessed by" the second world war. Those who know and understand a bit about history (a dimishing few of the younger generation bombarded by "woke" imbecility in schools and universities) are rightfully proud of my parents' and grandparents' generations in standing up to the murderous force of Nazi evil, Britain and the Commonwealth and Empire entirely alone for more than two years before America came in. My father was a front line soldier, one of the many who fought from the deadly beaches of Normandy in 1944 all the way to Hamburg in 1945. A British generation of great courage and integrity. Justified pride is not an "obsession", Mr Portillo.
Michael being half Spanish may cloud your view , let's look at Germany maybe they have something to be ashamed of , in Wales labour took down a statue of Picton who fought in the battle of Water looo
H8story being rewritten means the past is unlearnt and we lose the roots and threads that shape our landscape. The dominating toxic desires are self-consuming neurosis.
the people have not yet integrated the fact that it is they who validate the laws that the parliaments and governments, which are also at our service, have voted by us. we have everything to say about what is happening. the problem is that since 2020 people have been tested and approved like sheep who follow the movement without daring to say anything
We have a fair amount of woke over here and both the US and UK, and the rest of the west, were contaminated by the cultural relativism of the French Post-Modern Philosophers that soon had a "hegemony" (to borrow one of their favourite terms) over higher education, and now the whole education system. The rot started back then.
How has events that happened 200 years ago affecting someone now . Simple answer its not . My ancestors could have made to work down pit at 12 or other . Who cares cant rewrite history . Whats next taking the oscar away from the titanic film because it benefited from tragedy
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell 1984
I wish we never had to quote this cautionary tale. Remember what he said on his dead bed - don't let it happen!
However, this is not a modern phenomenon. It has always happened, and I'm thinking of Julius Caeser, Tacitus, Bede etc.
1984 should be mandatory reading for school children
@@davidroyston1671 I think it is, certainly Animal Farm is.
Sounds like 14 years of Tory right wing government.
What a wonderful discussion between two gentlemen, polite with an understanding of what they are discussing. Thank you GB news 🙏
Have you looked into the history of Furedi?
Yes, Portillo is a cut above the other presenters on here. Most of them can't have a polite nuanced discussion to save their lives
1000% correct be proud of being British our achievements our history and our culture
Great comment.
Same here. And all the current anti British rhetoric is only making me more patriotic.
British empire met its sunset,since war monger Churchill dug a tomb for the Nation step by step:Boer war,Gallipoli disaster ww1,Norway fiasco , Attack on Mers El-Kebir (thousand French sailor deaths 1940), Bengal famine (30 million souls perished) etc.He promoted a war,but didn't have muscle to show in Poland & Dunkirk theaters. He dragged the world (Canada,Australia,New Zealand,South Africa,India,and USA) into flames in order to preserve the Empire; and fostered monster Soviet communism to poison the entire world . Britain is the one deserved most blames for sacrificing millions of lives during and after WW2.
@@amyhess7029 Also insisted on civilian bombing campaigns during WW2 and rejected multiple offers to leave civilian targets off the table.
@@ur-inannak9565Good grief. Sure, Churchill wasn’t a saint. Hitler, Stalin & the Japanese leaders were all worse.
White , English and very proud to be so ! 👍🏴
One of the criminals who tore down the Colston statue, appeared on BBC Breakfast a few weeks later, and was treated like a national hero by Naga Munchetty. When people show you who they are...
A democratic process regarding the removal of the Colston statue had taken place - the local community decided not to take the statue down.
Some out of towners decided the locals where wrong, came to town and ripped it down. It was rank, mob criminality.
@BonusHole it was a peaceful protest apparently
Exactly. So true.
I have to say I dislike that woman after her frequent shows of bias and victimhood.. defund the pdf protecting twaterati bbc 🤦♂️
Ahhh..Naga Munchetty! A fair, balanced & courageous newscaster 😂
I know how fantastic Britain is because I live here but I can see the way the Tories and Labour are trying to destroy it
Bring back Great Britain 🇬🇧 👍
Or rather let's just be Great Britain
I’M PROUD OF OUR COUNTRY, GREAT BRITAIN IS CALLED THAT FOR A REASON , READ THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN ..DON’T LISTEN TO GASLIGHTING. WOKE OR ANYONE DEI PEOPLE. STAND UP FOR ENGLAND AND BRITAIN…BE PROUD 🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
That’s not why Great Britain is called Great Britain 😂
There’s Great Britain and a smaller Britain - Brittany. Grand Bretagne and Bretagne in French.
Hello Joy 😊🎉 ,How are you doing?
@@kennethewan9991
Nope
False. The G in GB means Greater.
Good questions and answers. The statue destroyers did indeed behave as a lynch mob.
Fact check: An inanimate object cannot be 'lynched' or subject to a 'lynch mob' on the scientific basis that it is in fact, an inanimate object.
Hello Gorgeous 😊🎉 ,How are you doing?
Michael we aren't obsessed it's our history, , aren't we allowed to be proud of history
& learn from past errors too.
@chrisr7597 what exactly do we learn the days of sending armada to other country hasn't occurred in recent times
@@Marcthered Many conflicts are yet to unfold.
We still must pay attention to the past..
Teaching point sir, for the up and new comer youthful generations.
I am sick of the paddlers of lies (nb Keir Starmer)
- this is so good to hear.
Hello Anna 😊🎉 ,How are you doing?
Orwell was a very well meaning and courageous individual who experienced how destructive ideologies can become.
I wonder if he ever thought that his writing might one day be weaponised by the far right.
Qué importante es respetar la historia para aprender de ella. Las tradiciones de cada país , deben ser,sagradamente, respetadas.Ahi están nuestras raíces y nuestra identidad y nuestro sentido de pertenencia.Hay que luchar por ello,sin complejos y con determinación.
Magnífica entrevista.Gracias GB NEWS
What a superb advert for GB News.
Two intelligent people having an informed and objective discussion about an important subject.
Bravo GB News.
C4, Bbc, Sly news, itv take note.
I'm proud to be British, and proud to be English. I despise Leftist historical revisionism, and the revival of guilt by association upon which this revisionism depends.
Britain has given the world so much. Vaccines, antiseptics, antibiotics, trains, computers, the Internet the list is endless.
The rule of law, English common law (legal reasoning), the presumption of innocence…. ⚖️
Isn't it Time that James Bond comes in and saves the World from Elite Psychopaths ?
We've definitely got the villians alright!
Yeah, it’s called Bolshevism!
u know who's
@@dsmith4658 This is the man who was the founder of the British Revolutionary Communist Party back in the 80s. Playing both sides to perfection, just as the usual script goes 👁️👃👁️
europa explains all this.
@@hydraV1-c7d 🎯
@@hydraV1-c7d 🎯
Why do they never call out the Turkish Ottoman empire, one of the most brutal empires in history (Armenian genocide etc)
Because the brutality fits in nicely with their agenda
Well said 👏 History is not for changing but to celebrate what was achieved and learn by mistakes ❤️🇬🇧
I'm sick and tired of being told that my countrys history is shameful and I should feel guilty
For a start, nothing in the universe gets to judge me for who I am
Secondly, I'm proud of our history and all of our historical achievements
People act as though no other country in the world has done bad things in their past
Whinging about some issue that happened hundreds of years ago means nothing to me
You want to cherry pick that part of the past you agree with whilst ignoring the rest.
@martynblackburn9632 Like I said, if you'd bother to read
I'm proud of it all, even the bad parts
So, go on
Hate me
Despise me!
I want to see that rage and anger boiling in your eyes 😄
@@SamuelBlack84 Proud of the bad parts? All we ask is that you recognise the bad as the bad and not the bad as the good.
@@martynblackburn9632 You're a very boring human
Who told you to feel guilty?
This has been going on since the last labour government got in
Where were you in 1983?
@@martynblackburn9632 I was born in 85. I'm talking about Blair, the leader of the previous labour government
One of the most sane individuals on earth 🌍
Civilization...no less
Coulston was a share holder along with many others. His statue was for his philanthropy not because of where he invested.
It is called "presentism" - judging people of the past by the standards of the present.
If the Belgians can keep a hold of King Leopold 2's statues then we can keep ours. If Chairman Mao still has a mausoleum( which he does) then why allow people who want to break up the UK have their way with this? Let us acknowledge the division, agree to differ and keep the statues. What I am not interested in doing is being lectured by individuals who want to manipulate history to suit their narrative.
My ancient Celtic ancestors valued and cherished their bards, carriers of the history, values and culture, for good reason. When they rewrite your history, they are trying to distort the present, and steal your future. Resist.
Well said sir you are bang on the button
It's all about communist ideological subversion. There are 4 stages. Demoralisation, destabilisation, crisis, and normalisation. We're currently between stages 1 & 2 and they've tried stage 3 already.
I'm not demoralised
j3ws
The Russians are getting more desperate
Valuable conversation, I agree with the author
Your political party should come way after your constituency, including those that did not vote for you. Your party should come after your country, after your family, which is your choice to be a politician that your family does not come first. Your party is the least of what should be important to you.
Portillo is wrong. The Bristol statue should not have been torn down. The man, who was a great philanthropist, was a product of his time, when these things were viewed in a completely different way. You could probably find reasons, if you look hard enough, to denigrate many, or even most, great historical figures, and remove their statues or other memorials. It is sheer stupidity to judge these people by the softer standards of today. It seems like they are expected to have been perfect, which is ludicrous.
I would be surprised if Portillo disagreed with Furedi's point of view (or indeed, yours). I think that as a good interviewer, and to show balance, he was questioning Furedi's views by presenting an alternative viewpoint.
GB News is strongly monitored by OFCOM to show balance, with the potential threat of being closed down.
In Colchester we have three roads named after the victors of WW2 including Stalin. They mark our collective past and inform us. If we know of Stalin we can critique his legacy but cannot if he is erased .
Brilliant piece.
That they must Try so hard to dis-credit this Great Nation shows we are still not yet "little england"
"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory.
Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history.
Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."-
Milan Kundera
Is this what Islam is doing in GB and Europe.
Every country’s history is filled with “Good” and “Bad”, why is GB the only one in the spotlight???
Look at many of the statues produced today, be it a loss of skill or aesthetic the fact is we don’t even seem to be able to reproduce these statues as artistic objects.
We are not even responsible for what our grandparents or grandparents did or any of our ancestors, so we should not be collectively responsible for anything that happened in history.
What is happening in the UK is eerily reminiscent of post war Hungary: everything, ideas, art, literature, history past and present was subjugated to a marxist soviet totalitarian ideological lens. It destroyed or at best vitiated original, creative thought, intellectual risk taking and all that was rich and complex was subordinated to the narrow, oppressive, pontificating will of the "state." Just visit Statue Park in Budapest to see the triumph of the banal, the mediocre and totalitarianism.
I’ve never loved and appreciated my cultural heritage more than I do now, after years of relentless hateful propaganda against it.
Erasing histroy means you cannot learn from it whether it right or wrong. It's part of the human condition that allows us to see: where we were to where we are now to where we are going. You can't change someone else's story, only your own. Great conversation in general that applies to all cultures regardless of race!
An intelligence approach to history....
Hello Stephen 😊🎉 ,How are you doing?
You won't find that here.
As to the museums scouring their collections for perceived fault, may I point out the clearly blind destructive example of artifact destruction throughout the Middle East? We will want to be better than that always.
The difference between celebrations the toppling of a statue of a living, ruling tyrant; and celebrating the toppling of a statue of someone like Colston is this:
The tyrant had oppressed the people that did the toppling.
Colston had been long dead.
Not to mention the reason their statues were up in the first place. The tyrant puts up a statue of himself to remind the people of their place. The city chose to put up a statue of Colston because of the contributions he made to the city. The fact that he engaged in slavery is irrelevant. Everyone engaged in slavery at the time.
Not that I deny someone may have a grievance about a statue, I just don't care how they feel. Now they're complaining about the memorial for Queen Victoria's husband. They are erasing the term Anglo Saxon because they don't want Brits to have any identity at all!
4:29 Please DON'T compare Thomas Colsten to Saddem Hussein. Half or more of the people who want to tear down British statues don't originate from the UK or Europe! They others are insane. The British Museums are disgusting. Of course white history in Europe is filled with statues and paintings of white European people! 😫😫 You don't see people in India, China or African countries tearing down their history because they are examples of the same race.
Re-writing history is sinister and misguided. Mistakes take us forward if we're objective about what we are trying to achieve and what we are trying to become.
Well said Professor Furedi. We need more voices like yours and The New Cultural Forum, Matt Goodwin, David Starskey, Reform. Yeh we don't lecture Banksy on his/her stupid paintings. Why pick on our greats like Constable and Shakespeare. We are told that there has always been blk people in the country so they can justify diversity. We are continually told that the Windrush generation rebuilt this country after the war.....
Shouldn’t we have the ability and freedom to acknowledge All aspects of history? Obliterating what was true, what happened, doesn’t serve anyone, doesn’t change us or teach us. We can’t observe, analyze, improve or evolve if we constantly throw away the proof. This trend results in a dumbing down of society: A new trend of “cosmetic surgery” of what happened. Change the ugly truth to something attractive. The acceptance of this takes away freedom of thought.
The evil British political elites have done that to us ..now the same has come to your doorsteps😢
How do they plan on stopping me?
They'll have to kill me
Hello Natasha 😊🎉 ,How are you doing?
If we do not preserve history and historical figures how can we learn from history and what works and does not the dictators shaped the world because leaders who was not dictators saw their model and what worked and did not for progression.
Why hasn't Cleopatra's Needle been thrown into the Thames. Was Colston a worse user of slaves than the then Egyptians who originally made the obelisk ?
One wonders why revisionists criticism has been so selective.
To punish people in 2024 for the past is illogical.
It's just about power
It's nothing to do with right or wrong
not if the point is to denigrate them .
@@hydraV1-c7d Yes and get money and power, we all know that is the point. Hilarious that these types don't see it as racism! I'm not ashamed of were I come from if the young want to believe it is there problem. The Education Departments of the West needs to shoulder a lot of these lies!
We have definitely been made to feel embarrassed and ashamed about British history,our very monarchy and democracy.
Meanwhile, some people demand Shari'a law, a new caliphate and sultanate!
Britain was the first country to abolish slavery and the British navy flying the Union jack flag was pivotal in breaking the global slave trade!
Meanwhile, slavery can still be seen in all of its ugly glory in parts of Africa and the middle east.
Where Shari'a law exists, the minority religions are oppressed!
In some countries and their interpretation of the sharia law the girls are denied proper education and the women are oppressed!
No - Surrender . No -vote 🗳️ for the bums 🌈
Ah, a little Irishman. How quaint.
The national trust is an example of this disgraceful attitude! That is why I no longer pay a subscription to them,
If anyone is to criticise any Empire, historically, it must be done logically by examining what it replaced and what replaced it and what were its effects on those who lived under its rule.
Heading towards another Khymer Rouge style year zero.
This has been going on since the sixties, at least in public schools in the UK, and apparently in other European countries too.
PAUL🇬🇧 The Western World is traditionally Christian. Who run the WEF and other International Organisation. They are telling the West what we can do.
I'm proud of my country and it's achievements. You cannot (or shouldn't be able to) change history or the fact that we needed things like fossil fuel to survive regarding climate change which is another ideology. They go hand in hand with trying to change history.
Historically, everything must be retained.
Good, Bad & Ugly.
Family origins as well.
Great video!
Just watched enjoyable trip around Ottoman Empire that took it from Roman Empire. Accolades of Ottoman generals adorn city walls . British Empire deserves equal honesty & respect
Well at least one person understands our situation shame about the youthful world
Will there be christmas lights in 4 star hotels this year ,While pensioners freeze , thats your toxic history, nowadays,
We may have had a little dust up now and then(1776,1812), but this American citizen is profoundly grateful to Great Britain for begetting the United States. Where one comes from informs us of who we are.
'The constant lying is not aimed at making people believe a lie, but ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.A people
who can no longer distinguish between right and wrong and such a people ,deprived of power to think and judge , is without
knowing and willing it,completely subjected to the rules of lies , with such a people you can do whatever you want'
Hannah Arendt Greman / American historian and philosopher
Every has a past good and bad but their is a war against our country that if your white British and proud of this country then you should be ashamed i say no be proud and stand up for your country
History is just that, it's done and gone and cannot be altered. If I know that I will be offended by something or someone, I dont go there or look at or listen to whatever or whoever it is.
Some like to be offended, however
not true , the events of the past still play out today . lets put it this way the "winners" write the HIS -story. Worked out who your enemy is yet?
Where would we be without the Steam Engine 😮
Hello Stephen 😊🎉 ,How are you doing?
SO FOR CHRISTIANS, DENOUNCING AND CONDEMING SATAN, LEVIATHAN IS NOT OK?
Thank you for typing the whole entire word out... Systematic.
??? wtf
@@DieFlabbergast Everything is so systemic now... we almost forgot what systematic was.
Those that control the present rewrite the past and therefore control the future
Orwell has become so relevant these days. Statues can be given a plaque with it's context in history.
ww2 is the biggest red pill of all.
Great channel
I live in a city in Arizona, USA. They recently appointed a Diversity Director, a new position that never existed before. The first thing they did was to seek out every street name and every name of a park that had any association with slavery, then they renamed them all after supposedly important local black or Hispanic people.
Absolutely
I would prefer that they remain in place and there be information alongside, explaining the history and context, honestly, why they are considered hero and why they are also considered a villain, and the context of the world at the time, domestically and internationally.
If controversial figures are placed in museums, they will not reach the majority of the public and I think it should be in the public realm.
If there are statues that are very deeply controversial, then perhaps a museum might be appropriate.
I do not agree with tolerating just anyone or a group unilaterally deciding to destroy anything.
UK Shakespeare love Democratic Republic of Congo
The interviewer is TOXIC and NEGATIVE right from the start. Turn the sound off and look at his negative face. We learn from our mistakes but we learn more from being positive too.
There is nothing so toxic - as the truth about toxicity.
“Our history”? Doesn’t sound British. Not a British name either.
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Portillo desperately trying to hang on to his obvious wokist sympathies, he needs to wake up.
I don't believe Portillo is woke, having seen him talk and present on other occasions.
In questioning Furedi he was presenting the alternative viewpoint to bring out Furedi's views in more detail, and show balance.
The interview worked very well.
u know who's very happy with how the west has gone down the tubs
Little hats.
@@JohnBuckers + other groups
7:57 - We could, in theory, give him "the ability to answer back" artificially, using RAG technology, by feeding all of his writings into a vector store and chatting via an LLM. Although it's incapable of communicating directly as himself, it's as close as AI can get us to how he might reply to any questions. There's quite a few caveats though; accuracy depends on the amount and quality of his writings, as well as his honesty regarding his own beliefs. And the questions asked must be fully understandable to him, using words, phrases, situations and circumstances common in his time rather than in our time.
Leave the past in the past we can't turn clock back
The change you all voted for
Not all.
20% voted for Starmer and his ilk.
Most did not vote because they felt defranchised, adrift and no representation.
We should learn from the past, not remain anchored to it.
Those whom wish to fundamentally change our society, don't care a toss about injustice, they have an agenda and they will use whatever means necessary to achieve it.
White people need political representation.
The Left v Right paradigm has been a disaster for our people.
@@littlecatfeet9064
Yes every single voter is responsible.
British people are not "still obsessed by" the second world war. Those who know and understand a bit about history (a dimishing few of the younger generation bombarded by "woke" imbecility in schools and universities) are rightfully proud of my parents' and grandparents' generations in standing up to the murderous force of Nazi evil, Britain and the Commonwealth and Empire entirely alone for more than two years before America came in. My father was a front line soldier, one of the many who fought from the deadly beaches of Normandy in 1944 all the way to Hamburg in 1945. A British generation of great courage and integrity. Justified pride is not an "obsession", Mr Portillo.
Two tire policeing😢 really omg...
Michael being half Spanish may cloud your view , let's look at Germany maybe they have something to be ashamed of , in Wales labour took down a statue of Picton who fought in the battle of Water looo
H8story being rewritten means the past is unlearnt and we lose the roots and threads that shape our landscape. The dominating toxic desires are self-consuming neurosis.
the people have not yet integrated the fact that it is they who validate the laws that the parliaments and governments, which are also at our service, have voted by us. we have everything to say about what is happening. the problem is that since 2020 people have been tested and approved like sheep who follow the movement without daring to say anything
UK will never be forgiven for giving the world Americans.
We have a fair amount of woke over here and both the US and UK, and the rest of the west, were contaminated by the cultural relativism of the French Post-Modern Philosophers that soon had a "hegemony" (to borrow one of their favourite terms) over higher education, and now the whole education system. The rot started back then.
europa explains all.
" I REVERE ISLAM AND INTEND TO BE KING OF ALL THE FAITHS WE NEED TO BE MORE WELCOMING." King Charles ( Feb 2023 London)
He’s reading that autocue like he’s a statue
Which historian is saying Churchill was the war criminal and not Hitler?
How has events that happened 200 years ago affecting someone now . Simple answer its not . My ancestors could have made to work down pit at 12 or other . Who cares cant rewrite history . Whats next taking the oscar away from the titanic film because it benefited from tragedy
Religious people see the past as sin...a sin that must be purged by any means necessary.
It's Modern Liberalism that destroyed the West.
They're idiots
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