Good to see David Starkey interview himself here 😅 love him haha

Absolutely fascinating conversation. David Starkey never fails to amaze me. Full credit to Harrison, I’ve not come across anyone who’s been able to challenge David in that way. It clearly takes a great level of intelligence to do that. I think by challenging David in the way that Harris did, brought the best out of him and showed another level to his intelligence.

I think I like Professor Starkey most at his most curmudgeonly. His courteousness always shines through. He must have been a great lecturer. Though I am very far from agreeing with his basic positions I never listen to him without learning something. Thank you.

Thrilling and robust discussion - I gained more respect for David Starkey after hearing his down-to-Earth thoughts on religion.

Glad to hear Starkey lay into Linda Colley.

Wonderful, wonderful, program gentlemen, brings back happy memories of tutorials and seminars with my supervisors and my own students when I was at university. Thank you. You have made an old anarchist very happy this evening. ❤️

Extraordinarily wonderful dialogue which kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. I shall have to listen again. Dr S was in normal full flow but Mr Pitt held his own (when he was able to speak) in putting forward contrary and often affirmative comments thus giving the listener the added pleasure of seeing two well matched individuals both at peace with each other but arguing from different bases. Well done and thank you.

Great conversation, though I wish David had let Harrison talk more

I'd love to sit in Dr Starkey's beautifully decorated home, and chat with him for hours. I would also love to own his decorative (vase?) with the emerald band at the top.) 🇬🇧 from 🇦🇺

incredibly impressive thank you both

The Right must be revolutionary. Nothing less.

"King of kings. Lord of Lords." is not referring to the monarch !

Blair an absolute disgrace 🤔💯🇬🇧

Dearest David. A conversation is a dialogue, though you as interviewee of course should speak more. This was a monologue, interesting but a tad onanistic.

Let Harrison speak more

Blair did great damage, however, it was Harley, in 1708, who made it possible. Both changed how Parliament functions and created unbreachable schisms, from their overweening ambition and lust for power.

Mr Starkey is very clear about presence and awarenes of those who supposed to defend tradition and to pursue strategy

1:02:00 finally allowed to make his case

It is so rare these days for somebody to know (or even to be interested in knowing) what they are talking about, and so it is no surprise that Starkey left the university system, if indeed he left it rather than being kicked out for having the arrogance to think for himself. But Starkey is quite wrong here. The whole Common Law system is based on the belief that there is such a thing as justice. It seeks to search for it in an imperfect (fallen) world, but it is a spiritual, yes spiritual, commitment. As Bede was keen to point out England was a Christian foundation. The rejection of Roman Catholicism was based on a rejection of paganism and a re-assertion of Christian values - namely that there is a transcendent ground for good and evil. The claim that politics ought to be value neutral is Liberalism not Conservatism.

This is what I love about David Starkey: he has no tolerance for hocus pocus. The young lad was given a good schooling.

Evening 🌞🙏

Irish Brehon Law wasn't imposed, though after that it certainly was.

Starkey, a CINO

Palestina was almost completely abandoned by 1840 due to 100s of years of economic destitution and the 1830s Ottoman-Egyptian wars. Arabs purchased land in Jaffa and the countryside. It was documented by these wealthy Arab families via land surveys; mostly ghost downs outside the cities. The 3 major cities were half abandoned. Ironically, the Arab, land flippers, kicked out the remaining Levantines who were pastoralists. Then sold their land to European Jews after 1878 for 4× - 8× what they bought it for. The Belfour act did not kick anyone off their land either. Ottoman government land changed hands to the British Empire and they designated a small sliver of land where Jews could buy their government land. This is not colonization. This was migration.

Roman Collapse, in Britain did not lead Christian Romano-British to success as a Christian Empire. Rather the simple, but robust Anglo-Saxons. In a society of harsh division between Romano-British Elites and a huge slave class. Sustaining this depended on Roman gold and Roman Legions.

Interesting that Starkey doesn't hone in on the claim that the genealogy of progressivism etc is a growth of the Quaker branch with Puritan influences.

Mr Starkey has thought about everything apart from how to be an active listener.

What would either of these two know about “being Christian” ????

Nothing illustrates the anti democratic tendencies of our political class then immigration. in a democratic society the political class should seek the consent of the public or at least sell the case for large scale immigration to the public our immigration policy is no different from the people's republic of china where the Chinese Communist party floods non han Chinese areas with han Chinese where local non han Chinese minority populations are not consulted with on this issue well we have something similar in Britain with the issue of immigration

Not sure if Dr. Starkey is deliberately misreading Tom Holland's useful book. Christianity is not coterminous with "the Church." Ask Martin Luther if you don't believe me.

Harrison is so hot tho

Not a dialogue heard here - lost opportunity with #DavidStarkey by his own wordiness. #HarrisonPitt

Neo-Beatles 😂

How to accuse someone you like of being wilfully ignorant, while not being offensive. Perhaps being so learned of the obscure, makes one ignorant of the obvious. The 'iron ulna of our lord' in regards to economic weights and measures. The 'Judge and jury' and 'the round table (especially in relation to the Arthurian legends as Christian king)' and 'the last supper' and more specifically the 12 synodic /13 sidereal phases of the moon in regards to the Eucharist (lunar eclipse at dawn of the spring equinox and/or midnight midwinter). Thus the accusatory 'King of Kings' upon the cross. There is no legal system without the bible to swear upon and the judge and jury, just as the day of judgement or jesus and the disciples. On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?” [19] Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” [20] “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?" The temple Jesus was talking about was not the stone one he was standing in. It was the one that would be ressurected. That temple comes with dimensions that were always associated with 'the Ruler' They are a repository of the Davidian line of Regulus, as was Jesus. Thus Jesus is King vs Jesus is God. One form of christianity had the king as the representation and continuation of that inheritance, standing in the stead of Jesus. One form of christianity had Peter as priest, being the continuaiton of that legacy. Thus the 1689 bill of rights. The metrology associated with that Temple (Stonehenge & the Great Pyramid of Giza), is that of the classical world. See d'Vinci 'Vitruvina Man'. See the crossed solar burst around the skull. See the ashen cross upon the brow of the 3rd eye. See crossing the 5/6ft armbar/clavicle via the 3rd eye, which sits at the center of a 360 Day Sothic (1 passus/second radius) circle, where the 10:1 fractals of City, Temple, Human Orphic Egg, skull and Ashen Cross, all hide the lost secrets of this relationship. Thus to say that christianity and the classical world were/are in conflict is a falsehood of the most grotesque kind. Just as saying that freemasonry was anti christian, rather than carrying on the original tradition that was suppressed (subsequently subverted or not). 10x10x10 pints of 5x5x5 gallons or 1250 pound water of 20,000 ounce, square root 8 feet at 24/25th scale. Rather than the Ulna of 'In the Image of God' geometry at 3 ft, to create the 3:4:5ft based Orphic Egg wrapped around by Ananke like the staff of the bronze serpent raised by Moses and Jesus, or the staff of Asclepius, the half armspan is raised to head height. Just as the raised armspan of the skull, that positions the ashen cross upon the brow, provides a 2x2x2 pint or 1 gallon crown. Shall I continue with the metrology of the ancient world, the garden of Eden, the Tempe of Apollo in the apple orchard of the Hesperides and Ladon ? What about the relationship between the 1st covenant of the Rainbow and the 2nd covenant of Jesus and how they relate to the refractive index of square root 9/5th and the secondary rainbow at dawn on the spring equinox or if you prefer 'In Hoc Signo Vinces' ? Perhaps the 3rd day of the solstice, rather than the 3rd day of the equinox ?

Weird strawman attack against tom holland but ok

for the love of god man finnish your sentence before you begin the next one i want to like Starkey but he is somehow forever in / around 75% right and this is very annoying.John Gray is even worse i fell like the other 25% is there just to spite me

Both Cromwell and Blair very close to " the tribe " from the Middle East.

OMG 06:30 seen enough. Jack Straw’s wife was head of Post Office an eon ago. What are you trying to say, David? Not interested

Essentially, at the end Mr Starkey comes down onto the side of religion. He says that for Britain to be great it must be a values driven society deeply tied and attached to our heritage and history and thus transcendent in our drive. His only complaint is with the Christian religion, if we were pagan in our religion like the ancient Greco-Romans before their conversion then that would be perfect for Mr Starkey. I must confess to having sympathy for this point of view as the values of Christianity largely led to the destruction of the past Western world and darkening of the European mind.

Fantastic discussion. I love to listen to Starkey and take his knowledge of history very seriously but he dismisses Christianity contemptuously. I can't understand this blind spot he has. You can't seriously blame Christianity for the woke idiocy. I suspect his reason for disliking Christianity is personal rather than intellectual.

Wokeness is Jewish. Any other explanation is a copout.

Unfortunately on this issue the usually correct Dr Starkey is talking arrant & risible tosh. Most of the laws in this country - in respect certainly to serious crimes - are founded in common law, i.e they were formulated by unelected judges and handed down from above. Furthermore all laws, including those founded by parliamentary legislation, are interpreted once again by unelected judges. The fact that English judges are not only unelected, but even today come mostly from the upper echelons of society, makes an utter nonsense of Dr Starkey's jingoistic, fallacious and fanciful attempt to differentiate an English citizen's relationship with the law as compared to the European model. We are ruled by an unelected and utterly self-serving judiciary, and Parliament is merely a fig leaf behind which judges hide their rampant, unaccountable and profoundly corrupt modus operandi.

You're asking a gay man?