At last, some academic with sense. I am an academic myself and I am ashamed of so many "professionals" who have seized to do real science for the sake of being "woke". Greetings from Germany and heart-felt admiration to David Starkey.
@@washingtongarden4078 Mad in the sense of angry - oh very definitely yes. Mad in the sense of crazy? Absolutely not; he's one of the sanest people speaking out in today's world.
This is very good sdp or yellow party stuff. Its about coming together through a shared learning experience. I'm not the greatest fan usually but this was good.
I wondered why this talk brought a lump to my throat and I've come to the conclusion that when someone puts difficult concepts in to plain and simple language, it confirms thoughts that you may have had but could not convey, love Starkey
Do men and women have the same size brain or does one gender have a bigger brain than the other? A Woke person would choose the answer that they would like to be true and a critical thinker would research which is factually true. They would accept the empirical evidence even if it wasn't what they would like to be true.
Totally fascinating, as always! Starkey is surely at his best when shining the light of his vast historical knowledge on the problems of the modern day.
Starkey's analysis is brilliant. He is so right about how it ensnares us. My background is in corporate training and for years we did such things as strategic planning, quality technology, etc until the focus in organizations became diversity/equity which is now big money and it's taken over the culture of just about every organization out there. This turn started happening about 20 years ago. . After that, few cared about productivity, efficiency or quality. (And it shows now) now people in these organizations have to sit in trainings and told that they are subconsciously racist. Over and over. And they accept it to keep their livelihood. We were much better off when we were mostly a nation of small businesses. They tend to be more independent thinkers-- they have to. I have a friend who recently took a job with a very large insurance company as a case manager. She works entirely from home. When they set up her profile she was forced to answer which pronouns she preferred. Those pronouns went into her profile and communicated in every single email and or paperwork that she is required to sign. Why? What does that have to do with managing an insurance case? And why wasn't she given a choice to NOT communicate something so ridiculous?
@@billbogg3857 they never went away really, just had a bit of a logo change and a few talk radio interviews. The fact a few higher profile people have echoed their support for them like Rod Liddell has given them a push.
Disagree with Starkey on the definition of a professional as a chartered civil engineer never got my hands dirty, pursued my career firstly with a slide rule sat over a dawing board, then with a computer and eventually a PC. But I totally agree about the institutions, mine - The Insitution of Civil Engineers - has lost all interest in building things and obsesses over: diversity, LBGQT issues, racism and climate change. And before I retired the company I worked for was ruled by the HR Department.
This will be the downfall of the west, with. Companies and societies too busy obsessing over diversity numbers and feelings over the right and most competent person for the position. It doesn't bode well for the safety of our infrastructure in the not too distant future.
The man is a genius. He is a prophet. SHAME on any and all who, lesser creatures indeed, have had the temerity to "cancel" such a gift and treasure. FIGHT. RESIST. I am white. I'm as good as anyone.
I now deliberately avoid the word 'professional'. After 20 years in a 'professional' career, they're simply better at lying and being a hypocrite than other areas of employment.
I'm a Conservative and your comment is incredibly stupid. Child labour laws, a minimum wage, workplace safety regulation, all at one point left wing policies now embraced by almost all wings of politics
@@lewis123417 I'm making no comment on the original post, but the regulation of the economy is not necessarily left wing. See Richard Oastler and the Tory Radicals of the 19th century for example. I believe the majority of the Factory Acts were passed by Tories, rather than the Liberals.
Professor Starkey might have mentioned journalists who are also busy turning their own trade into a profession and have likewise signed up to this new agenda, Channel4 and the BBC being supreme examples.
A magnificent man. The thing about professions is that they get more money. The worst thing they ever did with the nhs was make nursing a profession instead of a vocation.
Unions are the worse thing to have happened with the NHS. First they started out representing their members and standing up for them but they then developed into a political party pushing policy and trying to decide elections.
How exquisitely delicious it is to hear someone at a SDP meeting of the faithful, speak --wholly and without irony --about the displacement of quasi religion. And starkey perhaps not with standing it should,of coarse, be partaken with a supreme essence of relish
That's the best exposition of 'professionalism' and 'liberalism' I've ever heard, and then contextualizing them in the present-day, woke, virtue-signaling world, which gives one a real sense of how toxic both of these words, and the groups they represent have become are. Wonderful.
@@22448824 The best wealth distribution of all is a free market approach and low taxation. Allowing everybody to get a bite of the pie and in turn allowing more people to make the pie bigger.
Whenever I see the words, Social Democrat, I think of huge government bureaucracies micromanaging every aspect of a person's life because they believe government is always the solution and knows best for us.
Great speech. Institutions need to focus on functional outcomes, not social values and types of people in them. Effectively they have become weak and fraudulent. We are all suffering from the tyranny of virtue.
As someone of Right of Centre viewpoint I'm not of SDP leaning. However, I was most surprised that David Starkey received an invite to speak at the SDP conference, it does the party much credit, particularly in view of the recent condemnation of him by professional bodies.
An awesome ramble far across the origins of reformation from modernity to wokedom. Best dissertations i have heard on it, gave me a real buzz. Well done sir.
Social Democracy is the incorrect name for this party. If we look at Social Democracy it has its roots in Marxism, whereas the SDP here is closer to Chesterbelloc Distributism.
Absolutely right when he says organisations should not have values. I am reminded of Sheffield City Council banning Roy Chubby Brown on this basis, as if they could legislate for the values of the 600,000 individuals within its boundaries. Dangerous and insane.
After briefly browsing the polices on the SDP website, i have to say they look pretty good. Just my personal preference but changing the democratic to nationalist would be more my cup of tea, but that's just me.
The SDP with the right promotion and exposure have the potential to be major players in British politics. The values they espouse are those of the average voter in what were the Red Wall strongholds, the very people that Labour abandoned in their adoption of woke identity politics and who not a few in their now metro middle class activist base view with contempt . Those who out of desperation have lent their votes to the Tories are at heart Social Democrats. The SDP could and should do well in these areas. I would not only vote for you but go out and campaign as well.
More than likely not. He is there as a guest speaker and getting paid for it. It is very common for people like himself to speak at events and get paid for it. Clearly he makes the speeches relevant to the audience but also speaks his mind.
Yet another great and inciteful speech from Dr. Starkey. And very well done by the SNP for entertaining a truly diverse cast of speakers, which would not be seen, let alone tolerated, by the other main political parties.
Is it the Social Democratic Party or the Socialist Democratic Party? If is social as not socialist then this is the right way. After all, many people are very social and yet not socialist.
He most certainly is not. The professions such as Law, medicine, teaching, finance and civil service all look down their noses at the "working class". And it is the professions that like to lecture people on morality to the point that they are interfering in the policy of everyday life.
@@bighands69 I've always considered a profession to be a paid job which requires extensive training ending with a formal qualification. To that end I think there are quite a few trades which qualify as professions - many of which do involve manual work.
Within the timing of boiling an egg DS describes the 1948 book called The Gathering Storm, yes the gathering storm of Woke - yet does not say Winston-Woke, does not say WSC the Father of Woke, and does not even say Do you get the Yoke? Churchill said of it, This is not history, this is my case. He was being honest, This is not truth, this is my woke. Chamberlain was the hero, and traduced by the snobbery ever since, Winston wrote their case and the academics were encouraged along their ruinous path begun by ALR in 1944, though the professional yoke fell on him in 1946, as if Keith Feiling had seen the white of his eyes.
Well no of course not woke, and nor am I incidentally. But a professional himself (professional historian, at one time promoted as public spokesperson) who used that elevated position to promulgate his own unfounded and poorly examined prejudices as if he were offering insightful and intelligent social analysis.
4 minutes in he accuses 'liberal professions' of snobbery - followed by 'did anyone here do classics?' and a load of academic bollocks. Pot, meet kettle.
At last, some academic with sense. I am an academic myself and I am ashamed of so many "professionals" who have seized to do real science for the sake of being "woke". Greetings from Germany and heart-felt admiration to David Starkey.
David Starkey is a rare diamond in the rough. He speaks with integrity, boldness & sanity.
And spine. He also speaks with spine.
The guy is a madman
@@washingtongarden4078 Mad in the sense of angry - oh very definitely yes. Mad in the sense of crazy? Absolutely not; he's one of the sanest people speaking out in today's world.
I can’t get enough of listening to this brilliant man ⭐️💛💫
You do know he’s a Tory and everything that goes with it at heart
Imperialism
Western Enlightenment Domination
But above all
Power and Money
Congratulations to the SDP for having Dr Starkey as a speaker.
So the SDP is now the non-woke left party? Thought the liberal lefties is where all this crap came from in the first place.
This is very good sdp or yellow party stuff. Its about coming together through a shared learning experience. I'm not the greatest fan usually but this was good.
The elegance, the eloquence, the erudition... Chapeau, Mr. Starkey!
I wondered why this talk brought a lump to my throat and I've come to the conclusion that when someone puts difficult concepts in to plain and simple language, it confirms thoughts that you may have had but could not convey, love Starkey
Well said, Mr Starkey. Common sense must prevail.
Define common sense
Plato needs to be slagged off more often. Nice one, David.
@@seanmoran6510 pushing back against the woke brigade
Do men and women have the same size brain or does one gender have a bigger brain than the other? A Woke person would choose the answer that they would like to be true and a critical thinker would research which is factually true. They would accept the empirical evidence even if it wasn't what they would like to be true.
Dr David Starkey has his own TH-cam channel now ( David Starkey Talks ) 👌 time to support true and factual history !
Totally fascinating, as always! Starkey is surely at his best when shining the light of his vast historical knowledge on the problems of the modern day.
Thank God for David Starkey.
Which God????
Well said Mr Starkey, people nowadays lost common sense, that’s the sad thing
Dr. Starkey and Nigel Farage, speak for the Silent Majority.
Why silent?
Nigel Farage? Please! 🤡
He's quite simply brilliant.
Indeed, a national treasure.
This is a banging speech from Starkey. He lasers right into the issues.
Aw, I literally had no idea the SDP still existed...
Great speech, much appreciated. Thank you, SDP....
It was a great conference; Dr Starkey just one of the highlights.
The SDP will get my vote if DS endorses them
Starkey's analysis is brilliant. He is so right about how it ensnares us. My background is in corporate training and for years we did such things as strategic planning, quality technology, etc until the focus in organizations became diversity/equity which is now big money and it's taken over the culture of just about every organization out there. This turn started happening about 20 years ago. . After that, few cared about productivity, efficiency or quality. (And it shows now) now people in these organizations have to sit in trainings and told that they are subconsciously racist. Over and over. And they accept it to keep their livelihood. We were much better off when we were mostly a nation of small businesses. They tend to be more independent thinkers-- they have to.
I have a friend who recently took a job with a very large insurance company as a case manager. She works entirely from home. When they set up her profile she was forced to answer which pronouns she preferred. Those pronouns went into her profile and communicated in every single email and or paperwork that she is required to sign. Why? What does that have to do with managing an insurance case? And why wasn't she given a choice to NOT communicate something so ridiculous?
So pleased you are out and about and dare I say uncancelled again.
Humble mechanic here yet again enjoying another elequent history lesson from this marvelous old gay git.
You my friend are more important to our society than most “intellectuals”.
Großartig. Eine sehr pointierte und elegante Erklärung. Bravo!
I had no idea the SDP was still a thing. I look forward to your manifesto.
Rotten name . I thought it was something to do with Scotland and Nichola Sturgeon so I turned off . It looks rather good.
Social democratic party.
@@billbogg3857 been around since the 80’s
@@Sam-gw5pl Oh it's them . I thought they had long since gone . Thanks
@@billbogg3857 they never went away really, just had a bit of a logo change and a few talk radio interviews. The fact a few higher profile people have echoed their support for them like Rod Liddell has given them a push.
Disagree with Starkey on the definition of a professional as a chartered civil engineer never got my hands dirty, pursued my career firstly with a slide rule sat over a dawing board, then with a computer and eventually a PC. But I totally agree about the institutions, mine - The Insitution of Civil Engineers - has lost all interest in building things and obsesses over: diversity, LBGQT issues, racism and climate change. And before I retired the company I worked for was ruled by the HR Department.
I think he used “getting hands dirty” figuratively. People who actually do something compared to just talking.
@@22448824 yes he is reusing historical understanding like the parts of his talk on fine art and about the skill of painting.
This will be the downfall of the west, with. Companies and societies too busy obsessing over diversity numbers and feelings over the right and most competent person for the position. It doesn't bode well for the safety of our infrastructure in the not too distant future.
I agree about the ICE.Membership and chartership are necessary evils but are going off the rails.
Have you looked at the antics of Universities HR?
Excellent as usual.
You really do listen when Starkey speaks
I would undoubtedly be arguing with the man within minutes of meeting him, but you can't help loving him. A man for all reasons.
You'd also lose exceptionally quickly.
Mr Starkey always knows what he is talking about. He is a fantastic educator, and it is so refreshing to hear words that are more than hot air.
The man is a genius. He is a prophet. SHAME on any and all who, lesser creatures indeed, have had the temerity to "cancel" such a gift and treasure. FIGHT. RESIST. I am white. I'm as good as anyone.
Glad to see this being uploaded.
Would have liked to attend, but unable to get to London for that time in the morning.
Same , it would have been great to be there
This is brilliant - I just tried to post it on Facebook - but it wont post ~ truth is dangerous !
There is no crueler tyranny than that which
perpetuated under the shield of law and in the
name of justice'
- Baron de Montesquieu
the torch of reason has been passed from powell to starkey
I couldn’t think of a better advisor that the government needs right now than this man.
there are not many people that I would trust with their opinion. It takes years of being right consistently.....But this guy makes my 5 person list
Excellent.
The woke are wishing they never messed with him. It's backfiring splendidly.
I now deliberately avoid the word 'professional'. After 20 years in a 'professional' career, they're simply better at lying and being a hypocrite than other areas of employment.
There must be No compromise for leftism. None whatsoever.
I'm a Conservative and your comment is incredibly stupid. Child labour laws, a minimum wage, workplace safety regulation, all at one point left wing policies now embraced by almost all wings of politics
@@lewis123417 I'm making no comment on the original post, but the regulation of the economy is not necessarily left wing. See Richard Oastler and the Tory Radicals of the 19th century for example. I believe the majority of the Factory Acts were passed by Tories, rather than the Liberals.
@@lewis123417 are you a right wing populist or something? just asking
@@CarlosMartinez-vk4nd not a populist at all, not a fan of trump or Boris Johnson. I'm more of a centrist
Professor Starkey might have mentioned journalists who are also busy turning their own trade into a profession and have likewise signed up to this new agenda, Channel4 and the BBC being supreme examples.
A magnificent man.
The thing about professions is that they get more money. The worst thing they ever did with the nhs was make nursing a profession instead of a vocation.
Absolutely 👍🏻
Unions are the worse thing to have happened with the NHS. First they started out representing their members and standing up for them but they then developed into a political party pushing policy and trying to decide elections.
How exquisitely delicious it is to hear someone at a SDP meeting of the faithful, speak --wholly and without irony --about the displacement of quasi religion. And starkey perhaps not with standing it should,of coarse, be partaken with a supreme essence of relish
Fantastic! I love it when DS explains how painting had to be put on a conceptual level to escape from the 'dirty messiness' of its application.
The road to hell explained right there.
That's the best exposition of 'professionalism' and 'liberalism' I've ever heard, and then contextualizing them in the present-day, woke, virtue-signaling world, which gives one a real sense of how toxic both of these words, and the groups they represent have become are. Wonderful.
The moment the SDP appear on the ballot in my constituency, they have my vote and campaign support.
David, congratulations. More contextualising what the average person cannot see is required. I love the sperech! Barry Kwon in Sydney
Just superb
I am a normal worker and what he said about GPS is true .sadly we don't forget years ago what a white coat and stethoscope meant to us
i am not a social democrat, i am deeply conservative and a libertarian, but id vote for the SDP simply because they are patriots and oppose wokeness
Same. Though I would like to see some wealth distribution.
I think now that political parties names are meaningless and its the actions and policies are what matter .
@@22448824
The best wealth distribution of all is a free market approach and low taxation. Allowing everybody to get a bite of the pie and in turn allowing more people to make the pie bigger.
a master historian and one of the great philosopher of our time
Excellent from David Starkey. As ever.
Whenever I see the words, Social Democrat, I think of huge government bureaucracies micromanaging every aspect of a person's life because they believe government is always the solution and knows best for us.
I wish these smaller parties would work together to oust this government or at least labour
the people who work in monopolies, tend to have monopolised thought..
This is one brilliant man.
Great speech. Institutions need to focus on functional outcomes, not social values and types of people in them. Effectively they have become weak and fraudulent. We are all suffering from the tyranny of virtue.
As someone of Right of Centre viewpoint I'm not of SDP leaning. However, I was most surprised that David Starkey received an invite to speak at the SDP conference, it does the party much credit, particularly in view of the recent condemnation of him by professional bodies.
Do you believe in Life, Liberty and property?
@@bighands69 Who wouldn't?
Brilliant....as usual!
He's not wrong, but he touches upon ideas first mooted over half a century ago by Michael Young in his great The Rise of the Meritocracy.
An awesome ramble far across the origins of reformation from modernity to wokedom. Best dissertations i have heard on it, gave me a real buzz. Well done sir.
Social Democracy is the incorrect name for this party. If we look at Social Democracy it has its roots in Marxism, whereas the SDP here is closer to Chesterbelloc Distributism.
Profoundly Brilliant !!
Absolutely right when he says organisations should not have values. I am reminded of Sheffield City Council banning Roy Chubby Brown on this basis, as if they could legislate for the values of the 600,000 individuals within its boundaries. Dangerous and insane.
After briefly browsing the polices on the SDP website, i have to say they look pretty good. Just my personal preference but changing the democratic to nationalist would be more my cup of tea, but that's just me.
the Social Nationalist Party...? aka SNP... probably not a good idea lmao
@@Cam-sl8ve Laughing here and I think I've found my political home .
@@Cam-sl8ve Welcome to the home of a person that can't process three letters.
Thank God he’s rare. “Damn blacks “ steep in intellectual prowess
Thank you for calling out that sacred cow that is the NHS.
He speaks truth ...........
Bravo!
David Starkey for knighthood
Well said sir 👏👏👏👏
👏👏👏👏👏
spectacular
The SDP with the right promotion and exposure have the potential to be major players in British politics. The values they espouse are those of the average voter in what were the Red Wall strongholds, the very people that Labour abandoned in their adoption of woke identity politics and who not a few in their now metro middle class activist base view with contempt . Those who out of desperation have lent their votes to the Tories are at heart Social Democrats. The SDP could and should do well in these areas. I would not only vote for you but go out and campaign as well.
Unfortunately the conservative party is not being run on conservative values and is trying to perform social engineering.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
A light on the hill, if one may indulge in cliches.
Remember he’s heroes are Churchill and Thatcher
Money and Power
Is Starkey officially endorsing the SDP? I feel like he is extremely disappointed with all of the parties represented in Westminster atm.
More than likely not.
He is there as a guest speaker and getting paid for it. It is very common for people like himself to speak at events and get paid for it.
Clearly he makes the speeches relevant to the audience but also speaks his mind.
Remember he will defend Britain at the cost of England and the other nations on this island
Yet another great and inciteful speech from Dr. Starkey. And very well done by the SNP for entertaining a truly diverse cast of speakers, which would not be seen, let alone tolerated, by the other main political parties.
Funny that David rails against the 'professional', given that this is his class as well.
Imagine a heterosexual man making lewd comments about women. Double standards.
Time to do to "universities" what Henry VIII did to the monasteries!
Is it the Social Democratic Party or the Socialist Democratic Party? If is social as not socialist then this is the right way. After all, many people are very social and yet not socialist.
Democracy and egalitarianism got us in this mess, you ain't gonna fix it.
13:49 He was investigated for saying "damn blacks" not "damn" lol
I think Starkey mis-defining (or at the very least using an antiquated definition of) the term 'profession' to suit his argument.
He most certainly is not. The professions such as Law, medicine, teaching, finance and civil service all look down their noses at the "working class". And it is the professions that like to lecture people on morality to the point that they are interfering in the policy of everyday life.
@@bighands69 I've always considered a profession to be a paid job which requires extensive training ending with a formal qualification. To that end I think there are quite a few trades which qualify as professions - many of which do involve manual work.
Within the timing of boiling an egg DS describes the 1948 book called The Gathering Storm, yes the gathering storm of Woke - yet does not say Winston-Woke, does not say WSC the Father of Woke, and does not even say Do you get the Yoke?
Churchill said of it, This is not history, this is my case.
He was being honest, This is not truth, this is my woke.
Chamberlain was the hero, and traduced by the snobbery ever since, Winston wrote their case and the academics were encouraged along their ruinous path begun by ALR in 1944, though the professional yoke fell on him in 1946, as if Keith Feiling had seen the white of his eyes.
I am amazed at how many supportive comments there are for a man who epitomises the problem he is railing against
You might need to flesh out that idea a bit...
You need to explain that one?
Well no of course not woke, and nor am I incidentally. But a professional himself (professional historian, at one time promoted as public spokesperson) who used that elevated position to promulgate his own unfounded and poorly examined prejudices as if he were offering insightful and intelligent social analysis.
4 minutes in he accuses 'liberal professions' of snobbery - followed by 'did anyone here do classics?' and a load of academic bollocks. Pot, meet kettle.
Ok, so the SDP is further to the right of the Conservative party.
🤣🤣
Referendum on Immigration...
Don’t understand what he is getting at.
My god, David Starkey? You’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Unsubbed.
He's a Thatcherite - I agree he shouldn't really be speaking for the SDP but I don't make the rules.
WOKE!!!! WOKE!!!
Hence the chaos that ensues. The carnival came to town and forgot to leave.