David Starkey: We are ruled by lies
The Brendan O'Neill Show
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The change in the composition of our population since the 1960s gradually and accelerating |
| 0:07.0 | with the catastrophe of the Boris wave is unlike anything else. |
| 0:13.0 | The decision that the only way you could control the resistance to immigration was by suppression. |
| 0:20.0 | And the catastrophes have built up because we've adopted a culture of suppression. |
| 0:25.6 | What we've had is exactly as in the Soviet Union, an empire political culture based on the lives. |
| 0:33.9 | Lying about output, lying about finance, lying about freedom, lying about communism, lying about everything. |
| 0:45.4 | Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest this week, David Starkey. |
| 0:55.5 | David, welcome to the show. |
| 0:57.0 | A pleasure to be back. |
| 0:58.6 | It's so good to have you back on. |
| 1:00.0 | I feel like it's been years since we last in a conversation. |
| 1:04.0 | So it's really good to be able to have another one, especially as there are so many things happening in this country right now, in this once great nation |
| 1:11.7 | of ours, that I think people want to hear your views about. You know, it's a feebrile moment. |
| 1:17.9 | Things are being shaken up. Things are getting interesting, one might say. So to kick off, |
| 1:24.1 | I guess I want to ask you what you think the temperature of Britain is right now, |
| 1:28.6 | not the literal temperature, but the political moral temperature. You know, we've got the protests |
| 1:34.2 | at the migrant hotels, we've got this new movement raising the English and the Union flag all over |
| 1:39.4 | the country, we've got people expressing extreme anger against the government and officialdom for failing to protect our borders, |
| 1:46.1 | all these things that I want to get into you about. |
| 1:49.4 | But what do you think is the general temperature right now? |
| 1:51.3 | How febrile are things? |
| 1:53.4 | Well, febrile means literally feverish. |
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