Seems fair enough? The last time I saw Starkey on the telly he was reduced to doing a turn on GB News with Colin Brazier, and, true to form, he set out to shock his host and audience, I assume, by declaring “I’m a gay, a poof”, which I think is probably OK (maybe?). So I’d bring back Starkey, but I’d make sure that these days he knew that causing offence for the sake of it is fine, like telling people they’re intellectual pygmies or selfish or ignorant or socialist bigots, but that he should avoid stuff that people find racist and the rest of it, because the BBC is indeed “woke” in the sense of being an anti-racist institution and if he wants to say that sort of stuff (or be interpreted as such) then he can do so elsewhere. Then he’d play the man, or woman, or gender fluid victim, rather than the ball and come up with something like: “Isn’t the truth of the matter that you’re just a stupid little bureaucrat who can’t get a proper job and you make up for your manifest ignorance by bossing the rest of us around like a pound shop Pol Pot?”ĭavid Starkey says losing his honorary university titles was an act of ‘crass vengeance’
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Whether they were discussing gun control in America, abortion, race or the Middle East, topics it seems they never stray far from on The Moral Maze, he’d be there with his libertarianism and his historical insights, but at some point he’d reliably round on some liberal academic, boss of a quango or head of a humanitarian charity.
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Starkey was a wonderful panellist – the best – because he brought such an acerbic edge to the show, spicing up the usual amorphous philosophical soup with balls-out personal attacks.
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When I heard that lovely Michael Buerk – a fine journalist by the way who broke the news of the Ethiopian famine of 1984, which gave us Live Aid – was himself in the news for saying that the BBC is too “woke” and that freedom of speech is “seriously under threat”, I feared the worst.