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born 1945 England
David Robert Starkey CBE (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian and television presenter, with views that he describes as conservative. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before studying at Cambridge University through a scholarship.
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History is about arrogance, vanity and vapidity — who better than me to present it?
"By their fruits you shall know them." I always thought Jesus was a rotten theologian, but he is jolly good at politics.
Freedom of speech wasn’t won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.
English national identity is too important to be left to the loons of the BNP and the EDL [English Defence League].
If you think about it, Alex Salmond is a democratic Caledonian Hitler, although some would say Hitler was more democratically elected.
The determination is to replace the Holocaust with slavery. In other words, this is why Jews are under such attack from the left, there’s jealousy, fundamentally. There is jealousy of the moral primacy of the Holocaust and a determination to replace it with slavery.
We're at great risk of dying of niceness [...] I hate niceness.
The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion and black and white boys and girls operate in this language together.
Slavery was not genocide otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived.
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