This man is exceptional. He provides a truly profound description and analysis of the dreadful condition of our country today. Deep insight alongside humour.

Good man. A rare treat to hear him.

A true legend

Dr. Daniels is a treasure and, speaking as an American, not just a national one. I think it is becoming increasingly clear that what he described also is not a national but a Western state of affairs that cannot continue. Absolutely nothing works as it should or once did, and I know it once did because I was present when it did. And people, that is, human beings, seem to be more of a nuisance to the system than the purpose the system exists. Many people are now asking, why does such a system exist since it no longer serves the purpose for which it was intended?

Dalrymple is, as usual the most prescient observer of the UK

Thank goodness for people like Dalrymple. There are more people than I thought like Dalrymple helping us to make this very hard u-turn. The more publicity they get the more people gain courage to join and help correct our course. We need to celebrate these people.

Brilliant mind, sensitive soul.

Gloriously acidic …….gosh I’ve suddenly been transported back to a world that I knew and loved ……

I agree. The Conservative government ought to be ashamed of itself. How could so much that is bad (and anti-conservative) have been brought about under their governance?

Read his books. The man has a fantastic mind.

It's a scandal that this speech didn't get more coverage in the mainstream media. Everybody was too busy trying to make it look like a far right conference full of racists, they didn't notice the great speakers like Dr Dalrymple.

God this was a star-studded lineup! Great thanks for promoting the event.

As soon as started listening to this gentleman, I knew I would admire and love listening to him ,

A moving lament about the state of a nation badly let down by Conservative governance.

Great writer thinker. The combination of practitioner and good writer is potent.

A gem. I loved Anthony's Spectator column.

Excellent, particularly liked the example of pride in a job, I have been saying this for ages. All these things are tied in to where we are today

Regarding arithmetic: a few years ago I was informally teaching two ladies arithmetic to help them with their job prospects. Regarding the uphill struggle, one day I lamented to several degree educated colleagues ranging from mid 40s to late 50 that the said ladies didn't know their times tables so wouldn't even know what six times nine is. I was met by absolutely blank looks; these degree holders didn't know either. They went to school decades ago, in the same era as myself. It's been a problem for a long time.

Wonderful to find this excellent brain still writing and telling us what we the public have let happen to our western countries.. But how many of us have done anything about it!!! His books are well worth reading and passing on to another reader. I’m very grateful to have learnt from this man’s wisdom.

Brilliant.

Great stuff from Mr Dalyrmple, as always.

A true gentleman and scholar

I so wish there were more people like Dr Daniels, a man of integrity and profound wisdom something so lacking in our society today.

Hear hear!👌🌟

Delighted to find this channel and Mr Dalrymple’s address.

The Post Office scandal is a very good example of what he was talking about. I would encourage everyone to watch the KZfaq videos of the interviews with witnesses at the inquiry.

Eloquent, intelligent and incisive. How refreshing to hear high quality speech backed up mental acuity and thinking. Please keep speaking out. Hopefully you might strike a chord in the increasingly moronic masses. Unfortunately I cannot see that happening but there is always hope.

I hope Dr Daniel / Dalrymple makes more public appearances like this one

This is very good…This correct observation of Britain…

Anyone who hasn't had the good fortune to have read "Life At The Bottom" can easily remedy that, and I can only heartily encourage you to do so. The bluntness and clarity of Dalrymple's observations are bracing and saddening. Yet to ignore or downplay his comments is to ignore our current situation, and that is the saddest of all. The other value of his writing is a sharp reminder of the effect of a good education on a good mind, as evidenced by his varied and rich prose which is a delight to read yet can be challenging and that that's a good thing. We are also reminded that the loss of the opportunity of a good education at the individual level is a loss for us all.

Thank you Dr Dalrymple. Your are spot on. Sadky your country's lesrners sound like ours in South Africa. A world disaster. Love that Churchillian paraphrase!

"The multiplication of independent administrative authorities which come to make themselves independent of politics and even to replace them in the name of an expertocracy that is judged superior." What the French author refers to there is what I understand to be the creeping technocracy and trend of scienceism. The root cause of the lack of pride and the replacement of work with activity isn't just ignorance, it's primarily hedonism, and immediate gratification. To 'unscramble the eggs' as Daniels puts it requires a generational cultural change in human behaviour, in organisational management, and in less cynicism about power. There's so much I could go into regarding his talk, and if I had the opportunity, I'd have liked to have followed it up with an off-the-cuff speech of my own.

Every word is so true and so very sad. Our country is all the poorer for it.

The little Emperors who rule us? Or the civil serpents, as Jeff Taylor calls them

Great to see Dr Dalrymple.

Anthony is a remarkable thinker and writer.

I could not believe that teachers were asking for easier exams for children this week. This exemplifies the state of thinking and behaviour which is reducing our society to helpless victims. I do blame women for a lot of this nauseating 'there there 'culture defining any form of challenge which requires application, striving and determination as cruelty. I am a woman so I can say that.

BRILLIANT

Decency just oozes from Anthony Daniels. He more than any other (apart from my own father) has taught me what it means to be a civilised human being.

@16 Mass voluntary ignorance: “Those who know only their own generation shall always remain a child.” -Seneca

A supernova exploding in the stygian darkness of our age. Thank you!

….”senior police officers charged with ‘wasting police time’…” is up there with Twain, WC Fields and GBS. Funny, beautifully put and terrifyingly true. God help us…except we don’t do God anymore if Tony Blair is to be believed. Which of course he was…and that’s why we’re all here.

cant believe Peter hitchens didnt speak at this!

Awsome

National Treasure.

That non-crime 'hate' incident stuff is out of control. So far it hasn't entered Canada, but there are definitely authoritarian forces at work trying to bring it here.

Comprehensive schools at work 👍

change cannot await "voluntary" action in schools. FLORIDA recognized that gov funded schools have a responsibility to the taxpayers, and certain topics have been made off-limits. Thank you Governor DeSantis

If you love your children, educate them yourselves. Real math, real reading, etc.

dreadful ignorance on display among our youth. It hurts my heart to witness it every day!

Here in Germany is the same with some local features. I am really sorry for my kids. We all failed them. The teachers and the state they represent coerce us into this so they are at least as guilty as we the parents are. Yet this is no different than any other time in history - it was a tiger or a snake of a broken leg for millennia, now it is stupidity and fascism that seems to be inherent to the overcrowding of countries all over the Western world. Once i thought anarchism was a good idea. I learned very fast that this is just an utopia. It seems to me that the principles on which the still existing prosperity of the Western world is based are just utopian in nature too. We eete just lucky the almost utopia happened in our lifetimes. Let us hope that criminaly insane people that rule us do not succeed in kiling us all while they try to "save" the world.

"Shepherds to us all but indifferent to wolves" applies so well to Islamic immigration.

The USA are leading the English speaking West into Cultural Destruction.

So true. So depressing.

Pulled no punches. Needs to be said. Unfortunately it was significant that the applause was only desultory. If this conference intended to revive conservatism it's not done very well.

I like Theodore Dalrymple, but here he is literally reading from his book 'Life at the Bottom'.

Bravo!

If we need a prime example of the very reason why British (English) conservatives have failed, and failed dismally, here it is. His writing is funny, if you like feeling smug and superior. He, as most others who made good, has made the effort, and some, and made a living or a paying hobby enumerating all the ills in society which are directly attributable to a failure, a total lack of empathy and knowing one’s role in society. The English conservatives are totally responsible for the mess they made of Britain.

I love the bit about the police.I've had a hell of a time with them here in Spain-during Plandemic lock-downs.

The OG

Such great conservative thinkers, yet a party of gravy trainers

Anne Marie Waters has re-joined UKIP, and will be standing in Hartlepool at the General Election.

I can just imagine having TD comment on my grade 7 report card.😅

College of policing needs shutting down.

Now I know we are really in trouble, us Americans used to look up to Europe for a higher broader education, oh boy oh boy.

Seems to be the same everywhere.

When's the next event?

I'm sorry, he doesn't draw any conclusions between the decline of moral standards with the rise in police violence? With people becoming more destructive and defiant to the rule of law is it a wonder the beat downs increase? It is a societal breakdown not a policing problem.

Similar findings to gen z in America. They thought Russia borded America .

When will we see him on the bbc?

The quality of education has fallen considerably in the last 30 years. No pride nor interest in learning. It designed to control people without taking away superficial democracy. I agree with the comments on fascist policing.

Genesis 11 : 1 to 9 is coming back and hitting us in a different cloak.

Disconnection from the past is a feature of the far left. Erase the past and you can start again like Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin etc.

"Let not England forget her PRECEDENCE of teaching Nations HOW to live" (Milton) [true, of course, while Israel, future "chief of nations," resists the Gospel of "Everlasting Salvation," of their own New/renewed Covenant - Is 2:2-4; 45:17-25; Jer 31:31-36; Jn 4:22; Heb 8:8-12] Let us not forget the irrefutable truth that that Precedence was born of the Gospel, the ultimate sanction against tyranny, and guarantee of one's birthright to the wisdom of Nationhood and holy Patriotism, according to the pattern which Israel repesents (Nu 23:9; Deut 33:25-29; Jer 31:7,10,17,31-36; Amos 9:15; Acts 17:26-31) For "There'll Always be an England" IF "we'll not cease from mental fight/Nor our swords sleep in our hands/till we've built Jerusalem (i.e. redeemed the faith's foundations, and the virtue of our culture, noble institutions and values, being ravaged by human philosophy, relativism and Philistinism)/In England's green and pleasant Land" (Blake) to truly BE "Mother of the free" (A C Benson) to fulfil "the charter, the charter of the Land" which "at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main/When guardian angels sang the strain/'Britons never, never, never shall be slaves' " (Mallett: Alfred) For was "the Holy Lamb of God" not the Blood that "made us free" from slavery to sin (Rom 6:18-23; 8:3), for freedom purchased in that Blood to be MAINTAINED BY LOVE FOR TRUTH, by walking in His footsteps, to be ALL we were called to be, and beyond reproach? (Jn 8:31-36; 1 Cor 4:7; Eph 3:14-21; Col 1:21-23; 2:6; 1 Jn 2:3-6) Only by so doing shall "Wider still and wider/Shall our bounds be set (by)/God Who made us mighty (to)/Make us mightier yet" (A C Benson) to find greatness again in new ways and dimensions, through the humility of trust in and obedience to the Gospel, through the cleansing of the nation from its sin (Prov 14:34; Is 53:6-12; 1 Jn 3:1-10), to prosper in righteousness through "the Blood a Hero Sire (the Heroic faith of the Lamb of God - Matt 26:39-46) hath spent/to nerve (inspire and strengthen the endeavours of) hero sons" (A C Benson) So "never, never, never" underestimate the mercy of the GIFT OF BREXIT, as the highway for RIGHTEOUS CONSERVATISM to CHART what our God-breathed CHARTER and inspired national and patriotic anthems prophesy as a necessary (for the world) and entirely feasible future for our unique island kingdom-nation "For the whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were (deemed) invaluable at first, but DEADLY afterwards (inevitably fanned by pluralism, whereas) strong (timeless, tried and proven) beliefs (grounded in "inherited creed" and "fixed traditional sentiments" upon which human nature depends to attain the Divine character) win strong men, and then make them stronger" (Bagelot) As "the Ransom for ALL" (Mk 10:43-45; 1 Tim 2:1-6), the true salvation of MANKIND which is found in union with Jesus the Messiah through the Gospel of grace, is the ONLY filter through which we are able to recognize our desperate need of salvation FROM DEFINITIONS and expectations of ORDINARILY BENIGN concepts like equality, diversity and inclusivity (whose etymology is Biblical), now TWISTED into a deranged triumvirate of contorted rogue ideologies. Ideologies well described by borrowing Pope's satiric, aphoristic 'COMMONWEALTH of MALIGNANTS,' being used to vilify conservatism's COURAGEOUS CONSERVATION of a deeply rooted, holistic culture of truisms, being rocked by the bedevilling of reason and logic which is threatening to irreversibly damage the national psyche and erode the pillars of state, the once collective will of the nation that broadly knowing right from wrong, repressed every ill-wind blowing in from other, lesser-schooled, less literary and less astutely constituted lands. So again, "Let not England forget her PRECEDENCE of teaching Nations HOW to live" Britain's heritage and legacy are both contained in those words. Then and only then, will the future hold great promise. For as Byron warned: "A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an HOUR may lay it in the dust" Don't let THAT hour overtake a deceived, slumbering nation

an observation cannot be "random".

Berlin, for example, has beautiful modernist buildings--creative and not jarring.

It hasn’t got better. Maybe got worse😮

Do you think there is anything at all about life today that he thinks well of? But then he was a psychiatrist.

His audience laughed?

Damien Hirst - charlatan.

Why Fascist. Who not communist?

Comical, if it weren't so tragic.

Once the police did not wear beards,with so many stupid types, neither did they have their hair in so many silly looking styles,some with elastic bands ln a stump on the top of their heads.They look like Fred Karnows Army.not a police force. My father was a sergeant in the Met.he would be shocked if he was alive today.

So Theodore .. what the heck can we do about all this?

the audience laughs in the 1st 2 min. It is not funny

The grandiose title of this video has nothing to do with its contents. TD here makes a series of valid points but with no connecting link or theoretical underpinning, so we are simply left with the whinings of an often trivial and bigoted curmudgeon. In previous talks he has denounced those who are scuffy in their dress [sic] as though his own brand of sartorial elegance was a moral virtue rather than an unpleasant display of vanity.

I find this belittling of young people distasteful and it says more about those who do it than it does about their intended targets.

Is he talking about America?

Now I understand why the Brits hate Russia.

Bravo!