David Starkey: Britain Wasn't 'Built by Diversity'. Woke is Subverting British Society & Confidence
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The Paradox of Freedom in British History
I'd been on the kind of voyage from libertarianism to a much more grounded understanding of conservatives. I'm in fact looking at conservatives. You see, this is the paradox. And this is where this is where the whole wake teaching of history gets it wrong. If there's no irresistible movement towards freedom, the essential principles are there pretty much from the beginning. What you see is a broadening. Anyone looking at British, British and particularly English history up to the 20th century is struck by one thing. Yes, there are radical movements. Of course there are. But what they're all wanting to do is to tear the structure down. They're wanting to become part of it.
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