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Mr Obnoxious

#073 - David Starkey - Why Britain is No Longer a Democracy

Mr Obnoxious

Peter McCormack

Technology, News, Politics, Money, Investing, Finance, Bitcoin

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Historian and broadcaster David Starkey delivers an honest critique of modern Britain’s decline—from constitutional vandalism to the death of democratic accountability. Starkey traces the unraveling of centuries-old English liberties, exposing how Tony Blair’s government dismantled parliamentary sovereignty, politicised the judiciary, and empowered unelected quangos to rule by decree.

In this interview, Starkey explains why Britain is no longer a true democracy, how legal and cultural revolutions hollowed out national identity, and why the country stands at a historic crossroads. Starkey makes the case for restoring tradition, courage, and a politics rooted in freedom.

Transcript

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One of the things that's striking about the left is its belief in the magic of language.

0:05.0

It thinks of itself as being rational. It's not. It's rationalist.

0:10.0

It's the idea, fundamentally its approach is magical, that I become a woman by saying so, or by feeling so.

0:18.0

You can even look at the economy. We have growth simply by Rachel Reeves

0:23.3

performing a raindars and saying growth, growth, growth, growth, at the same time,

0:27.9

she increases regulation, increases taxation, which we know absolutely will guarantee that it doesn't

0:33.0

happen. When you think about it, it's utterly radical.

0:42.7

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1:20.6

Let me tell you something. Since we flipped the show six months ago to be in the UK, because we used to make it in America,

1:26.6

there's a name that keeps coming up in the comments that you have to talk to and it's David

1:30.3

Starkey. It keeps coming up over and over again. So when Joe said, do you want to talk to David

1:34.8

Starkey? I was like, yeah, absolutely please, let's make this happen. And I am probably like you,

1:42.8

increasingly fed up and concerned with the moral decline, economic decline, decline of everything in the country.

1:50.3

And I wonder, as a historian, you have a, you see it slightly differently from maybe, I see it in the present.

1:57.0

I wonder how much you see it reflecting on the passing and how we got to our great

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