David Starkey
Woke: the oldest profession
The modern hegemony of the “liberal professions” has become one of the principal challenges to liberal democracy
July 2021: Letters to the Editor
Peter Hitchens says the West was bullied into using the name “Beijing” instead of “Peking”
Modernising the Royal Family
David Starkey talks to Graham Stewart about the crown’s delicate balance between reform, revolution, and sustaining a useful role
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?
Forgive me
Can Peppa Pig save Boris from the CBI?
Cardinal Newman
The apostate saint
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
Making the hard choices
Tony Blair was right to take on the Taliban after 9/11
Terror and its apologists
The liberal left’s excuses mask the real culprit behind terror attacks
Shots with everything
Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars
Shani Diluka: The Proust Album (Warner)
His concerto is a rag-and-bone man’s barrow trundling down a Haussmann boulevard
The new female ascendency
How will society be changed by the over-production of female graduates?
Heil Greta
It’s time for Greta-worshippers to subject her claims to the same scrutiny as other major political figures
Wrong but it’s Right
Durham student sex training is Thatcher’s legacy
A matter of judgement
One man’s observance of the spirit is another’s technical breach