David Starkey

David Starkey, Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of History at the University of Buckingham, is one of Britain’s leading historians. He is the author of many books and has guest-curated several major historical exhibitions. He tweets at @DrDStarkeyCBE

The great scholars of the Middle Ages had their own word for Trans

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Fourteenth-century Oxford University offers today’s Woke some lessons in cancel culture

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A foolish figure of speech was enough to incur the hateful wrath of the politically correct mob

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The toppling of Colston’s statue in Bristol sends a terrible message to today’s would-be philanthropist

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The clinical decisions rushed through in March had a single goal: to protect the reputation of the NHS

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South Korea did testing as we have done food — giving the market its head

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Virtual reality is real enough to show man in his “natural” state

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Brexiteers are right: parliamentary sovereignty is inextricably linked with national sovereignty

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The Anglo-British belief in national self-government could forge a new path

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The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous

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