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David Starkey: Britain Wasn't 'Built by Diversity'. Woke is Subverting British Society & Confidence

New Culture Forum

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The Disaster of a Public Policy

I think that all political questions need thinking about in a historical context. I reject any form of historical determinism or anything of that kind of thing. But equally, we now see the disaster of a public policy, which is driven by single issues. COVID again, it wasn't rational response. It was a quasi-religious one. We treated the virus, suddenly it became like the devil. And quite seriously, it was that sort of absurd language. Ución and Homo Eans. To take Dylan's wicked explanation of the dreadful riots in the second room in Constantinople. That is a possibility. Now I am not a prophet. I'm a historian. There's nothing worse than

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