David Starkey
April 2021: Letters to the Editor
David Starkey missed the Welsh Government’s slave trade project which is littered with errors and relies heavily on Wikipedia
December 2020: Letters to the Editor
In praise of lockdown
October 2020: Letters to the Editor
Damned by his own words
The day I was cancelled
A foolish figure of speech was enough to incur the hateful wrath of the politically correct mob
David Starkey on the role of Parliament
Is Parliament a check on the executive or its enabler?
A surprising celebration
Good Friday is both a demonstration of, and the only answer to, what has gone wrong with the world
Is the expat way of life coming to an end?
The main rules of being an expat are 1) avoid controversy at all costs and 2) constantly belittle your home country
The New Keynesian inflation experiment
A post-pandemic surge in US asset prices has settled an old economics argument: boosting the money supply does lead to higher prices
Colonialism goes woke!
Australia abolishes parental rights, double-masking is double-plus-good, and the woke praise British Imperialism
The evolving role of Prime Minister
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries
If the Labour Party didn’t already exist, who would invent it today?
If Keir Hardie were still around, he might ask himself why he bothered to create a political party that has now lost its purpose
Why is Keir Starmer apologising for going to church?
Christian beliefs on charity and sexual ethics are not unrelated
Gaming Holyrood
Will unionists or nationalists succeed in beating the Scottish system?
A time to keep silence and time to speak
Nicola Sturgeon offers a PR masterclass in how to bury bad news
The EU is no haven for political naysayers
Is it right that Britain should be forced to extradite the political agitators of other EU states?