Theodore Dalrymple on Britain’s woke police and Oxford street chaos

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11 ай бұрын

There’s kind of gloom over Britain’s future and a feeling that everything is degenerating and has been for some time. It even affects people whose lives are perfectly satisfactory. To give one example, we have no confidence in the police, we don't respect the police and we're right not to respect the police. We feel that public services have degraded, educational levels are appallingly low and infrastructure has deteriorated. To discuss how life in Britain has changed in recent decades Steven Edginton is joined by the conservative writer, critic and psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple in the latest Off Script podcast.
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@fraggit 11 ай бұрын

"Our public servants want to save the world, but they don't want to clear up the litter"...What a great analogy.

@jonathandnicholson 11 ай бұрын

PJ O'Rourke said something similar: Everybody wants to save the world, but no-one wants to help Mum the dishes.

@bennym5244 10 ай бұрын

Yes there's not much glamour or money in picking up rubbish on a beach or lobbying China to scale back their fishing flotillas.

@count69 10 ай бұрын

They SAY they want to save the world

@MamaJanella 10 ай бұрын

Why would anyone bother with the litter if the world is burning? The young today are much better at seeing through bullshit than previous generations.

@bobsaturday4273 10 ай бұрын

sure , if they're "going to save the world" they'll start with resigning and checking into mental institutions for a long stay

@tomgeorgearts 11 ай бұрын

I like his phrase 'virtual virtue' . A great synonym for wokeness.

@heroldable 10 ай бұрын

Yeah. great.

@mjh5437 11 ай бұрын

"Everything is degenerating and has been degenerationg for some time" is right....We`ve never recovered from the damage the Labour Party did between 1997 to 2010 under Blair & Brown.

@damianbutterworth2434 10 ай бұрын

I remember seeing all the drones dancing to "Things can only get better.". How wrong that was.

@OneBiteoftheCherry 10 ай бұрын

I would go back even further than that to the days of Thatcher

@DenianArcoleo 10 ай бұрын

OP is a Partisan comment. I agree with 1by, Thatcher has a lot to answer for, not least the privatisation (and destruction) of what should be public utilities, energy, transport etc.

@faza553 10 ай бұрын

Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes by Andrzej Lobaczewski. “if an individual in a position of political power is a psychopath, he or she can create an epidemic of psychopathology in people who are not, essentially, psychopathic.”

@AmanitaWoodrose 10 ай бұрын

Don't forget they sold our gold at a low price!

@csmiller5221 11 ай бұрын

My mother often quoted Cardinal Fulton Sheen: Societies ascend in hobnail boots and descend in silk slippers.

@MsHburnett 10 ай бұрын

Very true ill quote that

@Brommear 10 ай бұрын

Bad times make for strong men, strong men make for good times, good times make for weak men.

@kaoskronostyche9939 10 ай бұрын

@@Brommear AND weak men make bad times. Don't forget that part and that is where we are - weak men (and worthless, uppity women) making bad times. Cheers!

@stephenskinner3851 10 ай бұрын

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience" - Adam Smith

@linmal2242 9 ай бұрын

Deep

@archiebald4717 11 ай бұрын

The very idea that a swimming pool will stop gangs robbing shops is ludicrous. It is poor parenting, not a lack of things to do.

@cyclist68 10 ай бұрын

Deep pockets full of other people's money until like Brum it comes off the rails

@Daisy-tl2lh 10 ай бұрын

there's just too many of them and they're here that's the problem ...

@sephus99 10 ай бұрын

What if they make it a moat?

@archiebald4717 10 ай бұрын

@@sephus99 As long as they drown, who cares?

@TheMOV13 10 ай бұрын

Poor parenting or virtually no parenting at all. I personally deny any "White Privilege" but I will admit to having "Intact and loving family, consisting of a mum and a dad" privilege. It's extraordinary that so much focus is on White Privilege which, if it even exists, is pretty much homeopathic in it's weakness of dilution, whereas the advantages of growing up in a more-or-less functioning family with a mum and dad are clearly measurable. Yes, of course, single parents can do a great job bla bla bla etc etc.... but it simply isn't ideal and should be recognised as not being ideal.

@willianjohnam 11 ай бұрын

I really recommend Dalrymple's books. They offer a very honest and some times funny insights on todays perils.

@user-li9yq2ws7s 10 ай бұрын

With a taint of arrogance

@faza553 10 ай бұрын

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century by Jacob Siegel March 28, 2023

@Blissblizzard 10 ай бұрын

@@user-li9yq2ws7sZero arrogance, he worked in A&E and prisons, there is no room for arrogance there.

@markg3683 11 ай бұрын

Excellent interview. However, I totally disagree with Dr. Dalrymple when he says that the police have no pride nowadays. And I have the rainbow photos to prove it!

@bennym5244 10 ай бұрын

Great!😂😂😂

@Hardfacts181 10 ай бұрын

@@bennym5244😂😂

@mareeauld5778 10 ай бұрын

Lol lol

@amandamcmartin3284 9 ай бұрын

I hope thats sarcasm 😮

@zoebatham1969 10 ай бұрын

“Our public servants want to save the world but they don’t want to clear up the litter” - This!

@baysideharpy8350 10 ай бұрын

We emigrated from the UK almost 20 years ago and friends/family thought we were mad. Now they envy us.

@csmiller5221 11 ай бұрын

What happened to parenting, taking personal responsibility, and looking out for your neighbors?

@deerinheadlights100 11 ай бұрын

Mass immigration and deracination of your culture, heritage and home. There is more but it is a purposeful deconstruction of our civilisation. The brave new world it is being replaced with looks un-human.

@stephenholmes1036 11 ай бұрын

We help our neighbours

@OneBiteoftheCherry 10 ай бұрын

Yes we do too

@Katherine-wx1kh 10 ай бұрын

So true. I won't stop this, I respect my neighbours always. So many have stopped this though. Shame!

@TheMOV13 10 ай бұрын

Exactly....well brought up people won't generally go around looting shops unless really desparate.

@Olivia-lu3gg 10 ай бұрын

Always enjoy listening to this man - calm, rational and uplifting

@goodtalker 10 ай бұрын

Another I like is Victor Davis Hanson.

@Olivia-lu3gg 10 ай бұрын

@@goodtalker I like him too.

@goodtalker 10 ай бұрын

I like Dr. Daniels because of his insight in working in Corrections. I also worked in Corrections in California for 25 years. I never met an inmate who thought of himself as a victim. On the contrary, the idea that their incarceration was someone else’s fault would have been undignified. I heard it once, I heard a variant of the following hundreds of times: “My brother is an attorney and my sisters work for IBM. I put myself in this place. Growing up I was a screw up and wouldn’t listen to my parents.” IMHO, many people who work in various areas of “social work” know this to be true; but if the truth ever came out, in the words of the late great comic George Carlin, “the whole system would collapse.” Have a nice day. @@Olivia-lu3gg

@polarvortex3294 9 ай бұрын

I'm not sure he's "uplifting." Some of the information he has to convey about the state of British society seems pretty bleak to me!

@simonrae3048 10 ай бұрын

Exactly. Patriotism in France ,a sense of self identity compared to rudderless UK, drifting aimlessly.

@deerinheadlights100 11 ай бұрын

Dalrymple's writings from his time as a prison psychologist and from witnessing the Burundi civil war are very interesting.

@ajs41 10 ай бұрын

The one poor prediction he's made, as far as I know, was writing in about 1987 that Rwanda seemed like a peaceful society and would continue to be so in the future. But it's a mistake lots of other people made.

@karinturkington2455 10 ай бұрын

"...living in some kind of dictatorship of virtue, but the virtue is virtual virtue; it's not real virtue." A perfect description of what is also happening here in Canada with our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau."

@TheMOV13 10 ай бұрын

I've lost my respect for the police as an institution too. I will however, respect individual police officers if they are doing their best under increasingly difficult circumstances. My family have benefitted from the work of conscientious officers over the past ten years or so.

@DJD10 10 ай бұрын

Always love listening to Theodore Dalrymple.

@kenkeyes8148 11 ай бұрын

Incontinent compassion....how true. Nothing anyone does is their fault.

@johnatkinson7479 10 ай бұрын

I grew up in the 80s on a semi rough estate..the criminally minded youth had no interest in "youth clubs" wether they were available or not

@itsallabouttherangers2698 10 ай бұрын

We niver went to the local yourh club and we weren't involved in criminal activity!!.

@bennym5244 10 ай бұрын

The real crime was the fact that people actually bought into this basic lie. It was always the go to excuse for gangs of lads to offer up journalists to explain their boorish behaviours.

@lindalambert8727 10 ай бұрын

I can’t believe what has become of Britain since I left there 40 years ago! Where did all the native born white British go?

@encle 11 ай бұрын

thanks for this. Mr Dalrymple is an important social commentator.

@iwonahunter3350 10 ай бұрын

I remember Dr. Daniels saying some years ago that dissatisfaction is one of the most common feelings experienced by us. I never felt depressed since.

@rolandhawken6628 9 ай бұрын

The reasons Britain is failing , Excess welfare, excess immigration , loss of manufacturing base . loss of discipline in schools ,over sexualisation of the population .

@acropolisnow9466 5 ай бұрын

Exactly.

@dasglasperlenspiel10 10 ай бұрын

Dalrymple is almost always very interesting. I always enjoy hearing him, and even more, reading his books.

@jenniferbate9682 10 ай бұрын

Our church youth club which took place in the church hall was great. But this was in the late 50’s. No drugs….but loads of music…games…fun…hikes…The society back then was linked to the church. Choirs, guides, scouts, concerts, all connected to the church…now, what have we done to change all this…why, and has it improved society today?? It’s gone….lost for ever!

@Tezzzaaa 10 ай бұрын

I used to go to MAYC (methodist association of youth clubs) I'm not particularly religious but I reckon those amazing times saved me from going down rocky (rockier anyway) roads. I always look back with gratitude for those days of fellowship. We did loads, inc. london weekend every May but it was more about having positive compassionate mentoring role models around setting a decent example. I feel for the young trying to find the same virtually.

@ajs41 10 ай бұрын

TD once wrote that it was believed there were around 150 drug addicts in the entire country in about 1950, and most of those were old ladies on various types of sleeping drugs.

@Tezzzaaa 10 ай бұрын

@@ajs41 then a little later perhaps there came the fashionable slimming pills, amphetamines, again prescribed mainly to housewives.

@jamesmurphy9660 11 ай бұрын

24:40 Theodore's answer sums up modern life in a way i hadn't heard before.

@cavendish009 10 ай бұрын

Too many illegal immigrants so this country does not feel as if it belongs to us - THE ENGLISH ???!!!!!!

@cavendish009 10 ай бұрын

THEY are also treated extremely WELL by our government whereas WE ARE NOT !!

@jumpingman6612 10 ай бұрын

Enoch Powell comes to mind

@Brommear 10 ай бұрын

The pride of Britain, the bobby on the beat, has become the laughing stock of the criminal world. The Thin Blue Line was prophetic!

@TheMOV13 10 ай бұрын

Family, family, family. Absent fathers.

@ramblinrog2767 11 ай бұрын

Another great interview Steven.

@JQ-999 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic interview and absolutely spot on from Theodore Dalrymple!

@brocmin7933 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for addressing Mrs. Thatcher's and Mr. Blair's responsibilities in the deterioration of the UK's social cohesion.

@bramcoteelectrical1088 10 ай бұрын

😮and councils following common purpose doctrine Look up " common purpose "

@benjaminshiels1824 9 ай бұрын

Ppl not realising it are truly delusional!

@Susan-kd3rv 7 ай бұрын

Marxist Common purpose exposed uk look 👀 up run councils.

@bramcoteelectrical1088 7 ай бұрын

@@Susan-kd3rv yes common purpose is very nerfifous and all about distorting the family unit unfortunately and making us divided.

@robwilton9539 10 ай бұрын

Oh how I wish I was born thirty years before I was. I would be dead now. Personal computers have had 40 years to destroy society, our work ethic and our ability to solve problems. AI will be the final nail in the coffin.

@horse69outside 10 ай бұрын

Our lives are being sacrificed chasing the holy grails of technology and Transhumanism.

@monsieurfoupierre 11 ай бұрын

One minute they are all Women hating narcissists, and now they are all too woke - so what is it then?

@Oksendal5 11 ай бұрын

Who is they?

@user-vd7tq5rp9x 11 ай бұрын

???

@goodtalker 10 ай бұрын

Here in California we have 13 million people on Medi-Cal. It's terrible.

@sandraelder1101 10 ай бұрын

“Incontinently emotional”. Yes!

@prboddington 10 ай бұрын

In Britain, most people working in public services treats the public they are serving as some kind of enemy they have to fob off

@ajs41 10 ай бұрын

The last time I visited my NHS surgery in December 2019 I was shouted at in an extremely rude way by the nurse I was seeing. Haven't been back since. I managed not to lose my temper, and slightly dumbfounded her by remaining polite despite her attitude. I think she wanted me to shout back at her, and then she could have complained about it and tried to blame the whole thing on me.

@isabelhernaez4617 10 ай бұрын

I hold a lot of respect for Theodore Dalrymple. He seems compassionate, knowledgeable and principled, and his irreligiosity and stance on Freud's theories makes me trust him even more.

@93jElwood 10 ай бұрын

Our public servants want to save the world but not pick up the litter!

@stephenholmes1036 11 ай бұрын

I too have lost all respect for Gloucestershire police utterly useless. I had them lie and try to hide their lies and eventually got it out into the open.

@petergaskin1811 11 ай бұрын

How many officers are they short of their pre-2010 establishment.

@stephenholmes1036 11 ай бұрын

@petergaskin1811 it was their professionalism or rather the lack, lack of evidence gathering Being lied too etc. The OPCC did an investigation its was 10 pages long and Gloucestershire police got taken to the cleaners in the report. I got a full apology from a senior officer. An inspector who said it was a black day for Gloucestershire police and tge Sergeant was transfered.

@casparbenjaminseymour 11 ай бұрын

i had a major accident in 2009 and to cut a long story short had to have the middle of my shin removed, wear an external fixator for 2.5 years whilst the two ends grew closer to each other and then joined. I had somewhere between 25-30 ops across 4 different hospitals, the main one being the BRI with the last one operation in 2017 to have pins and screws taken out. It felt like i lost everything from girlfriend to my job but the staff gave me hope and evenutally gave me life backi recovered can now walk although running isnt an option! My story is one of many that the NHS have served and saved in its lifetime and is the pride of our country. The generation that fought ww2 came home having seen horrors and rather than resentment tried to build a better fairer world. The NHS creation being one of those things. I worry about its future as i can see a time where a government part or fully privatises it. I pray this never happens as it has helped so many of us

@deerinheadlights100 11 ай бұрын

Sure, but the British population was very different back then.

@thomasherrin6798 10 ай бұрын

They are majorly the same but the politicians don't bloody listen!?!

@bennym5244 10 ай бұрын

I remember when my friends in the media used to defend the BBC to the hilt. They said the BBC would always help struggling comics, actors and writers. Look what's happened to the BBC now. Institutions change. I went to A&E last week with fractured ribs after falling and an infection of pneumonia. I was in such pain. After 8 hours they told me to buy some paracetamol and ring my GP in a week or so. Other times in the past they've been great.

@tomtom21194 10 ай бұрын

Very sober and interesting analysis. Enjoy listening to him, he makes sense

@ThisIsJamesL 10 ай бұрын

*An hour spent skirting around the issue **#demographics**. Indigenous Britons a minority in our own ancestral homeland by the 2060s*

@murrayeldred3563 11 ай бұрын

EXCELLENT DISCUSSION.

@JPB-zu6wd 10 ай бұрын

This man is right up my street, what a clever sane and intelligent gent. Should be prime minister. he speaks volume about are present day so called MP's. "Virtual Virtue' "Britains are victims" Blair Brown, Thatcher, Johnson, Sunnak all should be or should have been held accountable for the downfall of my once great country.

@dawnduskwinter 10 ай бұрын

We have to accept there is no police force.

@WindowsOfPhotography 10 ай бұрын

These issues are happening everywhere in the Western World. How did this happen?

@jumpingman6612 10 ай бұрын

Look up Oswald Spengler. There is more to it, but he was quite prophetic. I can also recommend Thomas Sowell. How the anointed corrups and destroys the society.

@paulheydarian1281 5 ай бұрын

@@jumpingman6612 Please recommend some specific book titles. Thanks.

@jessesewell7922 10 ай бұрын

Love this man

@Scott.Silburn 10 ай бұрын

Incredible how quickly & seemingly completely the world has changed in the last 50 years... Change is constant I suppose...

@OneBiteoftheCherry 10 ай бұрын

I think what this country needs is another event of tremendous difficulty in which we need to pull together. Covid wasnt bad enough. WW2 was a bit too bad soni wouldnt want that again. We're too soft.

@draoi99 10 ай бұрын

Why is insulin so much more expensive in the US compared to other countries? Some sort of malfunction happening in the healthcare market?

@ajs41 10 ай бұрын

Lots of things are more expensive in the United States. When I go to the dentist here in England it usually costs about $75. I think it probably costs a lot more in the US.

@twentyrothmans7308 10 ай бұрын

Not all insulin is the same, but I agree that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark.

@lindamorgan4604 9 ай бұрын

Yes its called greed

@DC3Refom 8 ай бұрын

Because there is a corporate monopoly with Pharama companies and no regulations on pricing

@johnsmith-rs2vk 10 ай бұрын

All part of Blair 's Education . education , education .

@SamtheIrishexan 10 ай бұрын

Good question about the Americanization of what it means to be British. I dont think it was American influence per say, Britain and America grew alongside eachother culturally. But we have changed towards global westerners. They have to defeat your cultural identity and religion to be able to destroy nations as powerful as ours. The soveits and Russians, and more lately also Chinese and other state actors, have been practicing grey zone wsrfare corrupting our culture and there is at least one generation of progressives who are completely lost to ideological ignorance.

@simonaatkinson5646 10 ай бұрын

Since when was Britain's population 65 million?

@ajs41 10 ай бұрын

It's about 68 million now.

@AndyJarman 10 ай бұрын

My partner of 25 years has been on SSRI anti depressants for the kast 30years. It doesn't seem to help but she can't manage to come off them. She has a poor grasp on life and has always had trouble making her way in life. I am thoroughly cynical about the whole mental health sector.

@sarahharris2729 10 ай бұрын

that sounds like executive function issues, not necessarily depression. are they neurodiverse? trouble grasping life isn't usual your whole life. If its depression it will have on set at a definite point.

@amaryllisequistra 10 ай бұрын

Finally, finally the truth about how damaging (and extremely difficult to come off) these drugs are is coming out, even in the mainstream; even the RC of Psychiatrists is admitting that these drugs are very problematic and overprescribed. I wish your partner well if she tries to come off them.

@DrDeuteron 10 ай бұрын

@@sarahharris2729 *she

@Tom_Quixote 10 ай бұрын

@@sarahharris2729 It's not a "they". It's a "she".

@seanbrink3993 10 ай бұрын

Oh these quiet voices of conservatism...Scruton,Dalrymple et al,are slowly fading.

@christinehill1038 10 ай бұрын

What does Hitchens think would have happened if the American GI's had not come to Britain during WWII? Perhaps all the Gaullist could have gone back behind their Maginot Line and defeated Hitler.

@louiseparker1915 10 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. I had my garden vandalised by the freeholder. The police don't give a monkey's.

@tishknight 10 ай бұрын

They are scared of the monkeys.

@SB-yq8uo 10 ай бұрын

I will invest in ping pong tables as I know they will never learn :-)

@stevensarson482 10 ай бұрын

In other words, hardly an unsupervised and socially managed moment, with the state acting in loco parentis on a more or less permanent basis and an end to individual responsibility. As the song suggests: I’m only human after all, don’t put the blame on me’. An alternative version of an Anthem For Doomed Youth.

@richardallan2767 11 ай бұрын

I wonder why life has deteriorated? I mean, we know who and what we have been voting for, so let's start there.

@ajs41 10 ай бұрын

If people spend a lot of their time comparing themselves to the wealthiest, most physically attractive people in the world, they're automatically going to be depressed and annoyed. No-one used to seriously do that until about 15 years ago. People used to like Marilyn Monroe, but they didn't get envious of her.

@clawsewitz4316 10 ай бұрын

He has a hard time saying,' in France the illegal migrants are kept apart. "

@tonykhoury5522 10 ай бұрын

Great interview

@allenomalley4014 11 ай бұрын

Multi cultural is the problem not people of different race creed etc but the narrative should be we are one we are many but we are British proud and a force for good

@melvynslote457 10 ай бұрын

different races have different cultures , so the narrative will never be as one but different., only homogeneous societies have any cohesion.

@softcolly8753 10 ай бұрын

"Diversity is our greatest strength". The idea that the less people have in common, the more harmoniously they will live and work together. Obvious innit?

@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob 10 ай бұрын

Multi-culturalism was foisted on us as a hastily penned concept to get us to accept mass immigration without putting up a fight. We have gained some nice ethnic restaurants at the price of a total lack of social cohesion in our city centres, and a loss of national identity. The UK is now a scruffy world dormitory.

@mywholesomechannel 10 ай бұрын

There is a feeling amongst Brits that these are the last days of our country. The place has become an international free-for-all.

@horse69outside 10 ай бұрын

Smart phones dumb populace. NWO incoming.

@paulhwbooth 11 ай бұрын

When reading the Riot Act in Oxford Street remember to end with 'God Save the King' otherwise it won't be valid.

@nogorman560 10 ай бұрын

He is correct

@fuzzydunlop1000 10 ай бұрын

Theo's in France lamenting the state of England, I remember growing up with him on the council estate..😂

@rmandel925 10 ай бұрын

This chap, Theodore is having a fantastic time in France. Look at the beautiful Sun behind him, an incredibly beautiful country steeped in tradition in history with some of the finest food and wine on the planet. A country of class! Why would he want to spend time in Britain that is a toilet and in the gutter.

@userccvv Ай бұрын

What is the exact name of the book Dr. Dalrymple is referring to (cannot find Sands Everything).

@mariamichael1669 Ай бұрын

When governments encourage fatherless families sadly this is the outcome. Also, previous and subsequent governments and privatised all our utilities therefore everyone seems to pass the buck rather than take responsibility, thus no pride! Similarly, our governments have encouraged the demise of our once beautiful and great country by encouraging every foreigner to come to these shores, bringing with them their own culture, religion and indeed their mother country ideologies and wanting to change the UK to suit their cultural needs. Many not contributing anything to the taxation system instead take rather than give……. The end of Rome…… sad times.

@tonkabeancat1117 10 ай бұрын

I'm relieved that Mr Dalrymple in this interview comes across as possessing equanimity and constructive comment. Years ago, I remember gasping at his unrestrained pessimism week after week in his column in The Spectator (I was thinking that he must be paid to be so). Maybe, living in the midst of the French language, he cannot avoid a certain visceral joy- whatever the subject being discussed?

@ajs41 10 ай бұрын

He's always been optimistic despite writing about pessimistic things. That's what I like about him.

@tonkabeancat1117 10 ай бұрын

@@ajs41 I always admired his column- reading from Australia- but marvelled at level of self deprecation in England (compared with hyper defensiveness in my former country)

@stevedriver1476 10 ай бұрын

People in Australia get charged then let out because the jails are full.

@Ninapia347 10 ай бұрын

He said his life is perfectly reasonable but everything is doom and gloom for everyone else. People everywhere love to complain. I think it’s BS.

@athelstan927 8 ай бұрын

Fascinating.. the moment he heard a criticism of 'his' profession he backtracked and defended it! Lets get it right GPs over prescribe.. they are too willing to take the easy way out!why? Because the consequences are not theirs to pick up! I like him alot for all that!

@mc.8391 10 ай бұрын

I certainly dont buy the idea that healthcare prior to the NHS was quite good in this country. For ordinary working class it most certainly was not. I remember how it was for my Mum and Dad and their family. Possibly for Mr Dalrymple's family it was a different story.

@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob 10 ай бұрын

Well the NHS is certainly unfit for purpose right now. Unless it's purpose is to waste millions on diversity and inclusivity managers, over-prescription of medicines and GP salaries of 100,000 pounds for three day weeks.

@linmal2242 9 ай бұрын

Has this been 're-posted' from an earlier listing? I seem to have seen it months/year ago. Does this happen much with stuff on Y T , anyone? This occurs to me frequently, that I seem to have seen it yonks ago and here it is Y T saying that it is only 1 month old !

@sallyedwards2400 6 ай бұрын

‘The ping pong table theory of wickedness’. He is 100 per cent correct. He has stared wickedness in the face and so have I.

@debraengland3827 11 ай бұрын

Dalrymple says "I don't think this kind of historical blame is useful." Although I think he is one of the most important modern intellectuals alive today, I think he has this completely wrong. Understanding First Causes, Root Causes & historical antecedents to contemporary problems is NOT merely an exercise in "historical blame". As the Santayana quote posted in front of Auschwitz attests: Those who forget the past are bound to repeat it. The warning is not only to remember, but also to UNDERSTAND. When Dalrymple misguidedly deflects this line of questioning by calling it "historical blame", he stops what is actually a crucially important attempt to understand the complex origins of how & why we have descended into the contemporary problems we face.

@Englishman999 11 ай бұрын

It's entirely proper to understand history, there is much to be learned by doing so. It's also entirely proper and possible to understand it whilst avoiding seeking blame by looking through present day views. We have to see history as a thing of it's time. The UK is in large part where it is today entirely because it looks to find a 'whipping boy' for everything it dislikes in life, rather than see the truth behind it's maladies and to then take responsibility for them.

@mrpolsco6872 10 ай бұрын

Change the Demographics change the culture.

@khankrum1 10 ай бұрын

The poorer citizen's do NOT have a " perfectly reasonable life"!

@isabelskelton794 3 ай бұрын

We have ghetto's here, the fact that each different culture sticks together, in the work place. Some of the recruitment agencies are now international, which means they represent their people - east europeans. But I would be quite frank the agencies suck here, because the "women" are not capable of being professional, probably because they have a old bloke running the agency who does not give a toss, so there is no service to the person who is looking for work. Much like how the country is run. No service to the British people.

@oldspammer 9 ай бұрын

My comment was about how slave wages are being imposed has the effect of cancelling of competency.

@sthvdhjii2667 11 ай бұрын

long lived Great Britain! now sun's geting real low

@teresahall8762 11 ай бұрын

Try and contain your glee....not as low as the setting in Russia or China....

@user-vc8ss4tm5i 11 ай бұрын

@@teresahall8762 Russia maybe, but Chinas sun is rising. China will emerge as the superpower of the 21st century.

@doffy2192 9 ай бұрын

F the uk and move to blugera

@michaelsmith473 10 ай бұрын

Funny, same issues in every western country. Funny.

@edbaker515 10 ай бұрын

Remember this all started under Cameron may Johnson sunik conservative progressive woke government s.......so i have to hold my nose at the next election to vote conservative...not a happy person

@danielspillett5393 10 ай бұрын

and france is full of toll roads

@stephendalton1648 9 ай бұрын

And frogs

@martinwilliams9866 10 ай бұрын

Antidepressants aren't a very different thing from therapy, in fact they're subset of therapy!

@factdaddy7586 10 ай бұрын

People should stop crying over change of society ,it will take place one way or the other.

@Silsoe123 10 ай бұрын

The old adage idle hands are the devils.

@walter77ify 10 ай бұрын

As he speaks from his Mediterranean idyll. I do agree with him, he is speaking the obvious.

@ajs41 10 ай бұрын

He's married to a French doctor. That's why he lives in France a lot of the time. The rest of the time he lives in Bridgnorth which is near where I live in England.