DR. DAVID STARKEY: NCF SMITH LECTURE 2019 - "Brexit & Our Constitutional Crisis: History's Lesson".
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- The New Culture Forum's SMITH LECTURERS:
2017: Douglas Murray; 2018: Nigel Farage MEP; 2019: Dr. David Starkey CBE
On 9 Dec. 2019, Dr. David Starkey delivered the New Culture Forum's annual Smith Lecture to a sold-out audience in central London. The theme was "Brexit & Our Constitutional Crisis: History's Lesson & Its Historical Patterns"
Dr. Starkey was invited following his hugely popular appearance on our TH-cam discussion show: "So What You're Saying Is..." (#SWYSI), earlier in 2019. This was the first of Dr. David Starkey's Brexit interviews to "go viral", achieving over 250,000 views, generating many newspaper headlines and much interest from other media.
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Starkey grew up piss poor on a council estate and his mum was a cleaner in the days when poverty was a reality and not a word used by politicians as a football. He is shining example of what a working class boy can do if he truly wants to better himself. His contribution to literature and history deserves a Knighthood .
True words, good sir.
Templar Knight
He also had club feet and was an early beneficiary of the NHS.
OMG ! Can you imagine being treated for that in the early NHS years. Two aspirin after they took a hammer to hs feet and some Lead lined boots to wear afterwards.
When David was growing up, upward social mobility was possible and doable via the Grammar School system. Those of us with vocational abilities went to Secondary Modern.
Labour could have the working class being bled away so invented the Comprehensive Schools. Everyone was brought to the lowest common denominator.
Dr. Starkey must be brought back from the cold - he has far to much to offer. His 'sin' was an unfortunate turn of phrase, not something that should bring the curtain down on a marvelous career, and such a valuable voice. BRING HIM BACK! Allow this, and before you know it - THEY'LL HAVE COME FOR YOU!
David Starkey is an absolute legend. What he says makes perfect sense and I wish he was a politician so I could vote him. He is brilliant!
As with every Starkey lecture , one needs to rewatch about 3 or 4 times for all of his points to sink in. A torrent of utter education and knowledge. It is a joy to be sharing the same timeline as him.
Starkey is a ray of light in these dark days.
Martin Baldwin-Edwards
As you say I did not attend the conventional university. Yet my education came via
the University of Life. Starting with milking cows at 13 each morning before walking
3 miles to school. Returning the same way each evening and repeating the same chore.
I think a few grammatical errors are permissible don't you?
But still thank you for pointing out my spelling error I will correct it.
@@bluepeter3470
I agree that maybe he should go into politics! However, universities are where the battleground is! This is where the the young are being brainwashed!
@Martin Baldwin-Edwards No guarantee, these days.
@@bluepeter3470 yes he does. By pointing out the issues he shows people what needs to be done to keep the society we want. I love politics, but realize that everybody does. Dr. Starkey is a historian so it is with that lens we need to judge. I would suggest you look at videos of David's especially his take down of Laurie Penny.
Further, did you listen to this entire talk? If you did you would have realized that he points out the historic roots of what is happening now. His points about the differences between the American and French Revolutions. If we don't understand the roots of what is happening now we have no way of stopping the extremists.
Further, I agree with Dr. Starkey that one should read Edmund Burke's book on the French Revolution and how he was able to predict the course thereof!
Always remember that "those who do not understand history are condemned to repeat it."
Shawn Dorisian hello.
It's ok to comment from behind the social barricades but come down onto the battlefield.
And experience the real world.
This man is a national treasure - if I, an American, may in fact say so.
you may, it is a crying shame that our retarded political class don't understand a single word he says.
Matt, You are very welcome; now please persuade the Hoover Institute to do an interview with him. Peter Robinson is a very good interviewer.
Could you be the first person on the internet, of any nationality, questioning your own right to offer us your opinion?
Share and enjoy.
Im English and i think Alex Jones is a national treasure.
David Starkey a working class intellectual, the very breed Labour hate.
Labour in its true form was the foundation of the working class intellectual. My father was true Labour and a working class intellectual. The Right was quite content to have poor people remain just ignorant enough to be controllable and do the crappy jobs that always needed doing. The original working class movement struggled to get working class/poor people to get the advantages of education. What today's Guardian reading pseudo Labouristas dislike is that once you have educated the working class to think for themselves, you can't control what they think.
@@mididoctors more working class than Ed Balls and his wife.
Maurice mickelwhite aka Michael Caine was the son of a fish porter,
And also did national service as a private in the army.
I don't think we can call him anything but from working class stock.
And he's done well for himself.
Good for a working class role model.
We can’t have the working class getting educated. They might start to think for themselves. Far better to keep them uneducated so they keep voting correctly.
TheDativeCase My father too. Served the people as Chairman of the Labour Party in his district for over 30 years. He is 91 in January. It is so very sad to see him filled with wretchedness at what the Marxist Trotskyites Maoist communists have done in 2019.
Dr. Starkey is a Scholar of British History and if you do not know your past cannot you go wisely in to the Future. I say this as an Irishman ( and lets say we have had our differences ) it is also very Educational for me to learn from Dr. Starkey.
Dr David Starkey is an absolute legend.
Love good, honest open debate and Starkey is someone to listen to. Well done New Culture Forum . Thank you.
Starkey’s observation that British conservatism is an alliance of the working and upper classes against the elite middle , came through in SPADES on Thursday. Redcar. Sedgefield. Don Valley. Workington. The list is endless. Those are genuine , solid , English working class areas. And they came out for Brexit and Boris.
Agreed. Working and upper classes share the virtue of patriotism. For whatever reason, the middle class tend to see patriotism as a problem.
I do not see how any of you have come to call the middle class "elite"? The "elite" in a socio-economic sense are are those with the most power. i.e. the richest. The "middle" class does not command anywhere near the amount of wealth/power as the top 1%, or .5%, or .1%, or anyway you want to split the top of the wealth pyramaid. The elite are those with the most wealth.
In reality, patriotism does not unite the working class with the upper class as these are completely different worlds, and the wealth/power of the top is dependant on the workering class staying "poor". Trying to harnass patriotism this way is a dagerous illusion, as what happens next when the lives of working people get harder relative to the upper class?
@@CCDR07 I took it as elitist in the political sense.
This guy David should be recognized as a national treasure literally. His knowledge of history is extraordnary. His analysis unique
Quite simply David Starkey in my view is THE best authority in terms of British historical events and constitutional transition, a fantastic source of factual information and superlative in conveying to all taking the trouble to actually listen his words make perfect sense and also by the way a thoroughly decent chap
Thank you Peter for this wonderful lecture. David Starkey, brilliant.
I saw this had been uploaded and it brought a smile to my face. David Starkey is always well worth listening too. Never fails to stir the little grey cells into motion.
David Starkey is fantastically good at relating the past to the present and demonstrating to those of us with sketchier knowledge of exact historical detail just how the past does indeed repeat itself, and what the likely consequences of that repetition may be.
I've been watching David for years now. Never understand why he has not been given one of the top positions in our country given his wisdom and knowledge. The truth is probably uncomfortable for our weak political class.
David Starkey isn't detached enough from reality to be convincing in one of the pantomime parliament roles.
Starkey is a wise and eloquent man. Thanks for posting this lecture!
Agreed
I'm a simple man. I see Starkey, I click
Starkey at his very best. This is absolutely top-drawer.
Spot on - excellent stuff.
I like David Starkey because he understands how history is riddled with good intentions!
It's nice to know that you are not going insane, thank God for the voice of reason.
Is this really you? A great talk
"We don't create society; society creates us." A simple concept requiring a degree of humility that horrifies the self-absorbed Left. Thanks for the reminder Mr S.
That one statement goes against everything the left political class believes.
@@lindoncoffee Absolutely correct. In fact that statement invalidates the left totally and probably explains why the left is always doomed to fail
Tim Hill The corollary to that of course is that Men do not have ideas, Ideas have Men!
@nicolas ennu people come into the world with no culture or tradition. It is all learned and absorbed as one grows up and develops as a person. It is society that makes the person and it is usually the society you are born into that shapes the person you are
@nicolas ennu this most certainly is incorrect. If an English baby were adopted at birth by a Japanese couple and brought up in Japan then it would attain a Japanese culture. It does not inherit the English language from its biological parents, it learns Japanese language and culture from the Japanese society in which it is raised. As Starkey says, society creates people.
I'm a big Davis Starkey fan, discovered him late in the day after my mother raved on about him for years with his shows on TV but this is off the charts !
His 'Marlborough' documentaries are some of the best I have seen in decades.
As an American I enjoy learning about English history. I would like to read more about Disraeli and the father of conservatism Edmund Burke.
Edmund Burke was Irish and was educated in Ireland. His family was mixed one side being catholic the other being Protestant.
He was persecuted for his Irish catholic heritage and would actively present himself as Protestant. He seen first hand what penal law in ireland did to certain peoples. This must have heavily shaped his world view.
Always good to hear this man's insights.
David Starkey highlights what the others are afraid to say but he also illustrates future difficulties if they are Not addressed
Absolutely splendid and very illuminating in troubled times.
Thank God this man's view on the catastrophe of PR is expressed so expertly and clearly.
Really nice seeing the rise of a genuine British conservatism via the NCF. Very polite , utterly British and shoving the Overton window to the right , where it should be. Well done on the 3 million views! Incredible. Starkey is the cherry on top. A true nationalist and a superb educator.
Remainers "The price of everything and the value of nothing" - spot on.
always a high standard, not to be missed
Thanks for what you're doing Peter
You're saving the sanity of minds and lives
It is refreshing to hear sense through the babble. Good show
I LOVE THIS MAN! ".... had always read a Guardian editorial ..." hahahaha just classic - that has activated my endorphins - wonderful observation by Dr Starkey!
6:10 As it turns out , God was certainly with us on Thursday! God bless our wonderful nation.
Dr. Starkey unleashed. A man totally in control of his brief. Erudite and convincing in his argument. He seems to be really enjoying himself these days from the talks and the interviews he has been making recently. It's a pleasure to follow a gentleman at the top of his game. I just love this guy. Sit up and take notice Boris!
Going to have to watch this again - so much there!
Honestly, I could listen to Dr. Starkey for hours. He has a delivery style that holds your attention and speaks with a clear knowledge and intelligence, based on hours, days and years of study and reflection. Above all, he speaks in a language which everyone can understand - he is not aloof or arrogant. I enjoyed his series (on his favourite topic - the Tudors) on TV. Every detail of the events of that period of history was covered and explained, along with the connection and implication for subsequent events.
He is an amazing man, who recognises the importance of the Constitution of this country and the imperative nature of its survival. He has been awarded a CBE...…..my question is "where is the knighthood or peerage?"
A product of a grammar school and Cambridge education, he has determined his own route through life, becoming a "go to" source for opinion on many issues. Sadly, as is so common these days, he is regularly condemned for simply giving his opinion and telling the truth. Equally sadly, those who attack him are rarely fit to lace his footwear.
What an absolute treat!
I loved what Dr Starkey said about George Osborn, he can only count...that's exactly what Mr Farage has been fighting for all along, to be independent and respect the result of 2016 referendum. Love listening to him and I've learned so much.
Thoroughly enjoyed this, many thanks
Always worth listening to and always good value. How marvellous to lift this whole scenario away from the current undemocratic politicians who in the main have lost all sense of constituents. Would have like to hear the following Q&A!
Nigel Freer ...... click on the channel the q and a video is right there.
David Starkey speaks for the common man
As a Canadian and a member of the Common Wealth, we must remember our history and take pride in the Greatness of England and all that it has given us. I hope England can arrest the erosion of its culture for the world has a great need of its leadership.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I'm pretty sure american indigenous people would have an entirely different opinion about that. We should consider their viewpoint as well for a clearer idea about English culture.
Brilliant. Especially as I watched this after the election. So, doubly brilliant.
God I love how the doc opened his speech God Bless u man
David Starkey sees clearly, analyses correctly, and always speaks the truth. And he is fearless in speaking his mind. Boris would do well to take heed of David Starkey’s comments on Brexit.
Dr Starkey is correct - "The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilisation of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth," [E M Forster] by "those who know the price of everything and the value of nothing." [O Wilde]
@@mididoctors For the individual purchasers of their own property it did, and that's the objective.
@@mididoctors Individuals and working families have enough worries maintaining their ownership of their land and property from taxation by both Socialists and Capitalists. Culture is upstream of politics, families and individuals are upstream of culture, that's what I heard in his talk. "I distrust all systemizers and avoid them: the will to a system is a lack of integrity." [Nietzsche]
@@mididoctors Because, by its nature, "social housing" is a "system", see my previous quote.
@@mididoctors I would like to see the proof of your allegation, going by my own working class family my grandfather , his two brothers & 3 sisters all rented for their entire lives both his children & over 80% of his grandchildren & great grandchildren own their own houses, not one of us went to uni either we went to work perhaps you should give it a try.
@@mididoctors
I guess you have never lived in a social housing era. If you did you would never promote it. I grew up a council estate and it was a hell hole.
Most people who live in social housing do not value the house and many will be stuck on welfare and will never strive to be raised out of the estate. I was the only person in my class at school that went to university and got out of the hell hole estate.
yes! we need as much content from starkey as possible
M'mmm--- I have always enjoyed being informed and entertained by David, What is unique about him is, his unwavering determination, to speak his mind, regardless. I was hoping to hear him concentrate on the BREXIT issue more, though.
TIME TO BRING DAVID STARKEY BACK ! A MAN OF SUBSTANCE in an environment of empty vessels making a lot of noise !
Wonderful
Great lecture from Dr. Starkey. Thoughtful and provocative. Sadly, I can’t see Boris or his henchman Dominic Cummings taking the Disraeli route; Boris seems to be making the same mistake that both Cameron and May did, with accepting Blairism, with all that entails, what with its worship of globalisation. Then there’s Boris’ “Brexit deal” - which is May’s deal rehashed.
I'm glad that Starkey's videos are starting to show up in my recommended videos again.
Starkey is spot on: It isn't about economic growth: Those of us who voted for Brexit were ready to be poor but proud. We hope we can have our cake & eat it, but we are ready to make sacrifices if necessary.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. I always learn a lot from David Starkey. I wanted it to go on for much longer!
I would have given anything to see this, David Starkey has a similar way of thinking to myself and I never thought I would ever see a person who thinks like me :)
That's not the case of course but I view given to you by what's driven down our throats by a powerful minority..
@MichaelKingsfordGray sorry I didn't know you were the jealous type
Thank you so much for making this available outside of London, you deserve all success in your endeavour.
I admire what Peter Whittle has achieved with the New Culture Forum. And what an erudite analysis by Dr Starkey. (Rees Mogg has an understanding of constitutional history and also knows Erskine May). - And today a resounding win for the Tories.
He called the election. His detailed analysis turned out to be correct.
Sir David Starkey would be befitting
This man is a genius
He`s a national treasure.
Astonishing, even though I am Australian the arguments he makes are as refreshing and thought provoking as Strutton in its scope and analytical direction. The conviction of his views carried by intimate knowledge of his subject matter.
How powerful, our world creates us, we do not create our world.
15:00 ish: "Reason which is unchained from experience is a catastrophe." -- a quote for the ages.
Was recently reading Tolman's _Origins of Totalitarian Democracy,_ where this is beautifully, terribly illustrated by examples from the French Revolution.
Disraeli's conclusion in simpler terms is surely"The enemy of my enemy is my friend".
Whereas experience has taught that it should probably be "The enemy of my enemy is also an enemy whom I'm forced to endure until an opportunity arises where I can get rid of *both* of them . . . "
@@mididoctors Nooooo, no. It's people like you that alienate the other half of the population. Your utter refusal to countenance the fact that you lost the vote and have done your utmost to stymie that result has been the dividing force.
If the Leave vote had lost they wouldn't have made even 1% of the hoo-ha you lot have.
Makes one wonder what'll happen if Boris wins today . . . ?
The Gods Right-Hand Man
Nice....eloquently put and the proverbial 'nail on the head'.
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@@TheGodsrighthandman By chance, I can answer your question: a lot of hoo-ha. 😂
@@mididoctors Losers' consent is fundamental to democracy. Without it, everything is meaningless. We have had 3.5 years of hell (as Leave voters). Friendships have been lost. Families estranged. And all because the Remainers did not act in accordance with losers' consent.
Though if I'm french, I like dr Starkey very much ! :) He is not an ideolog, but an historian and everything he say is based on facts and intelligent conclusions. Even if he says that most of the bad ideas in the world come from France :)
Amazing, fantastic talk!!
It would be great if David Starkey could make a comeback. Cancel culture is wrong and he still has a contribution to make to the debate. As with all speakers if you disagree, then argue your point of view...
Great man.Great channel.
Fantastic fella 👍🇬🇧
Wow I will have to watch the other lectures after this one.
Thank God that we have Corbyn, rather then an electable Marxist.
Gary Powell unfortunately if we’re unlucky we’ll get the self confessed Marxist in no. 11!
We'll see; the young voter is capable of anything. How many of them turn out remains to be seen.
I think the people chose Johnson's blatant buffoonery over Corbyn's passive-aggression. There's a moral in there somewhere and I suspect it isn't a nice one.
Brendan Tannam - I disagree the landslide has come from traditional labour heartlands which he has ignored withe previous labour government going down the multi culti route. When they had the opportunity to voice their opinions they did in a referendum which he said he’d honour then didn’t. I would say if anything they were left with a poor choice because the dopey politicians who incidently voted 6-1 in favour of a referendum, then didn’t want to carry it out the result.
There is no electable Marxist - ask the people of Central-Eastern Europe! Or read Solzhenitsyn....
Bravo. Encore.
A David Starky podcast would be great 👍
Thank you for such an illuminating lecture.
This’ll be good.
This fine gentleman just condensed two centuries of democratic theory into a 30 minute speech. This is what I call a historian rock star.
excellent lecture
What a great lecture!
I'd love to listen to Dr. Starkey talk about the other side. About Gladstone, and how liberalism, which was supposed to be about liberty, became something entirely different.
Starky has been proven ABSOLUTELY right! Viva one nation Toryism!
@WhyOWhy perhaps, perhaps not. We will see.
WhyOWhy I don’t think ‘ betray us’is really the correct term.Boris will do what’s right politically and historically for Boris, hopefully that also works for us, For some things it won’t
The man stands for free speech, free expression, and had no belief in supernatural religious belief twaddle.
Magna Carta did not die in vain
Spot on.
It's always great to watch British minds getting drunk simply by talking. So I praise the empiricism. For example, one can sadly see the 'success' of Britain's economic policy over the past 40 years. If you want to become depressed, you can look at the economic data itself. 👍
Great clarity. A clarion call to those unhappy with the direction we have been taking. Let's hope Boris is responsive!
Intellectuals in the United States are dwarfs when compared with Dr. Starkey. Such brilliance!
Excellent lecture by Dr Starkey. Dr Starkey refers to, and suggests reading Disraeli; I would really appreciate if he could provide a reading list.
Absolutely Great, thank you for this wonderful video.
An incredible mind.
Out there, we've walked quite friendly up to Death,-
Sat down and eaten with him, cool and bland,-
Pardoned his spilling mess-tins in our hand.
We've sniffed the green thick odour of his breath,-
Our eyes wept, but our courage didn't writhe.
He's spat at us with bullets and he's coughed
Shrapnel. We chorussed when he sang aloft,
We whistled while he shaved us with his scythe.
Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed, -knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
Wilfred Owen
Spot on: BREXIT is a question of values, community, identity, whereas the Remainers respond like accountants, with materialism and GDP. Farage talks of this, but Boris?
+neilblockhead
They are only using financials as a means to stay in a super global state.
bighand69 absolutely. Trying to convince us it’s all about economics when really it’s a constitutional question.The election proved that the average man in the street isn’t that daft
I wish, oh I wish he had taught me history. He is an amazing man.
Is there a version with Q&As?
Peter Whittle, the host, wrote a book called 'Being British - What's wrong with it? It red pilled me.
Unity not diversity is our strength.
Dr starkey is a behemoth
This makes perfect sense, liberalism is all about any and everyone which is in total contrast to the patriotic people who believe in and want to preserve their culture, national identity and values. It is frustrating that those beliefs are now labelled as racist xenophobic or fascist.
Boris Johnson could do worse than watch this. 👍
Yes and still so a few times if necessary.
"No, not burka, Burke!"
I'd suggest that Peel and his peers would very much be for brexit, the perpetual chaos of the EU and it's corruption would have failed the tests of his mighty intellect.