David Starkey | SDP Conference 2021

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  • Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
  • Appearing as a guest at the 2021 SDP Conference, historian David Starkey speaks about the rise of the professions, its connection to moralistic cultural liberalism, the right domain for ethics, and the experience of being "cancelled".
    Recorded on Saturday November 6th, 2021.

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  • @jacobmojapelo2448
    @jacobmojapelo2448 2 роки тому +79

    David Starkey is a rare diamond in the rough. He speaks with integrity, boldness & sanity.

    • @lachlanbell8390
      @lachlanbell8390 2 роки тому +9

      And spine. He also speaks with spine.

    • @washingtongarden4078
      @washingtongarden4078 2 роки тому +1

      The guy is a madman

    • @janetbarkwith6369
      @janetbarkwith6369 2 роки тому

      @@washingtongarden4078 Mad in the sense of angry - oh very definitely yes. Mad in the sense of crazy? Absolutely not; he's one of the sanest people speaking out in today's world.

    • @alisonrogerson3143
      @alisonrogerson3143 2 роки тому

      I can’t get enough of listening to this brilliant man ⭐️💛💫

    • @seanmoran2743
      @seanmoran2743 Рік тому

      You do know he’s a Tory and everything that goes with it at heart
      Imperialism
      Western Enlightenment Domination
      But above all
      Power and Money

  • @WeShallOvercome10001
    @WeShallOvercome10001 2 роки тому +75

    At last, some academic with sense. I am an academic myself and I am ashamed of so many "professionals" who have seized to do real science for the sake of being "woke". Greetings from Germany and heart-felt admiration to David Starkey.

  • @dickygeemusic
    @dickygeemusic 2 роки тому +71

    Well said, Mr Starkey. Common sense must prevail.

    • @seanmoran6510
      @seanmoran6510 2 роки тому

      Define common sense

    • @HibsOfStow
      @HibsOfStow 2 роки тому

      Plato needs to be slagged off more often. Nice one, David.

    • @dickygeemusic
      @dickygeemusic 2 роки тому +3

      @@seanmoran6510 pushing back against the woke brigade

    • @sebastianguerre6868
      @sebastianguerre6868 2 роки тому +1

      Do men and women have the same size brain or does one gender have a bigger brain than the other? A Woke person would choose the answer that they would like to be true and a critical thinker would research which is factually true. They would accept the empirical evidence even if it wasn't what they would like to be true.

  • @johnalexander5535
    @johnalexander5535 2 роки тому +60

    Congratulations to the SDP for having Dr Starkey as a speaker.

    • @zootsoot2006
      @zootsoot2006 2 роки тому +1

      So the SDP is now the non-woke left party? Thought the liberal lefties is where all this crap came from in the first place.

    • @clivemarriott7749
      @clivemarriott7749 2 роки тому +2

      This is very good sdp or yellow party stuff. Its about coming together through a shared learning experience. I'm not the greatest fan usually but this was good.

  • @christinemackenzie5454
    @christinemackenzie5454 2 роки тому +11

    Thank God for David Starkey.

  • @tbone35453
    @tbone35453 2 роки тому +60

    He's quite simply brilliant.

  • @jjcustard6378
    @jjcustard6378 2 роки тому +13

    I wondered why this talk brought a lump to my throat and I've come to the conclusion that when someone puts difficult concepts in to plain and simple language, it confirms thoughts that you may have had but could not convey, love Starkey

  • @alokinrainborn
    @alokinrainborn 2 роки тому +3

    The elegance, the eloquence, the erudition... Chapeau, Mr. Starkey!

  • @Hopeful_Nomad
    @Hopeful_Nomad 2 роки тому +15

    Dr David Starkey has his own UA-cam channel now ( David Starkey Talks ) 👌 time to support true and factual history !

  • @youtubecommenter6223
    @youtubecommenter6223 2 роки тому +26

    Totally fascinating, as always! Starkey is surely at his best when shining the light of his vast historical knowledge on the problems of the modern day.

  • @lydiamalone1859
    @lydiamalone1859 2 роки тому +14

    Starkey's analysis is brilliant. He is so right about how it ensnares us. My background is in corporate training and for years we did such things as strategic planning, quality technology, etc until the focus in organizations became diversity/equity which is now big money and it's taken over the culture of just about every organization out there. This turn started happening about 20 years ago. . After that, few cared about productivity, efficiency or quality. (And it shows now) now people in these organizations have to sit in trainings and told that they are subconsciously racist. Over and over. And they accept it to keep their livelihood. We were much better off when we were mostly a nation of small businesses. They tend to be more independent thinkers-- they have to.
    I have a friend who recently took a job with a very large insurance company as a case manager. She works entirely from home. When they set up her profile she was forced to answer which pronouns she preferred. Those pronouns went into her profile and communicated in every single email and or paperwork that she is required to sign. Why? What does that have to do with managing an insurance case? And why wasn't she given a choice to NOT communicate something so ridiculous?

  • @pwcfuster
    @pwcfuster 2 роки тому +39

    It was a great conference; Dr Starkey just one of the highlights.

  • @JoshH96
    @JoshH96 2 роки тому +15

    This is a banging speech from Starkey. He lasers right into the issues.

  • @skadiwarrior2053
    @skadiwarrior2053 2 роки тому +25

    Excellent as usual.

  • @sunnyfreeman5869
    @sunnyfreeman5869 2 роки тому +37

    Well said Mr Starkey, people nowadays lost common sense, that’s the sad thing

  • @theoilandgasresourceportal2132
    @theoilandgasresourceportal2132 2 роки тому +18

    The SDP will get my vote if DS endorses them

  • @shackledcitizen
    @shackledcitizen 2 роки тому +28

    Dr. Starkey and Nigel Farage, speak for the Silent Majority.

  • @MrToastercide
    @MrToastercide 2 роки тому +32

    I had no idea the SDP was still a thing. I look forward to your manifesto.

    • @billbogg3857
      @billbogg3857 2 роки тому +4

      Rotten name . I thought it was something to do with Scotland and Nichola Sturgeon so I turned off . It looks rather good.

    • @currentcommentor8745
      @currentcommentor8745 2 роки тому +2

      Social democratic party.

    • @Sam-gw5pl
      @Sam-gw5pl 2 роки тому +1

      @@billbogg3857 been around since the 80’s

    • @billbogg3857
      @billbogg3857 2 роки тому +1

      @@Sam-gw5pl Oh it's them . I thought they had long since gone . Thanks

    • @Sam-gw5pl
      @Sam-gw5pl 2 роки тому +3

      @@billbogg3857 they never went away really, just had a bit of a logo change and a few talk radio interviews. The fact a few higher profile people have echoed their support for them like Rod Liddell has given them a push.

  • @jojones6191
    @jojones6191 2 роки тому +12

    So pleased you are out and about and dare I say uncancelled again.

  • @stefannicholson852
    @stefannicholson852 2 роки тому +20

    Großartig. Eine sehr pointierte und elegante Erklärung. Bravo!

  • @Fenristhegreat
    @Fenristhegreat 2 роки тому +20

    Excellent.

  • @StationGarageSt
    @StationGarageSt 2 роки тому +13

    Humble mechanic here yet again enjoying another elequent history lesson from this marvelous old gay git.

    • @22448824
      @22448824 2 роки тому +4

      You my friend are more important to our society than most “intellectuals”.

  • @paulwhalley4746
    @paulwhalley4746 2 роки тому +4

    You really do listen when Starkey speaks

  • @MrDavidht
    @MrDavidht 2 роки тому +23

    Disagree with Starkey on the definition of a professional as a chartered civil engineer never got my hands dirty, pursued my career firstly with a slide rule sat over a dawing board, then with a computer and eventually a PC. But I totally agree about the institutions, mine - The Insitution of Civil Engineers - has lost all interest in building things and obsesses over: diversity, LBGQT issues, racism and climate change. And before I retired the company I worked for was ruled by the HR Department.

    • @22448824
      @22448824 2 роки тому +7

      I think he used “getting hands dirty” figuratively. People who actually do something compared to just talking.

    • @RavenShinyThings
      @RavenShinyThings 2 роки тому +1

      @@22448824 yes he is reusing historical understanding like the parts of his talk on fine art and about the skill of painting.

    • @tabbik4857
      @tabbik4857 2 роки тому +3

      This will be the downfall of the west, with. Companies and societies too busy obsessing over diversity numbers and feelings over the right and most competent person for the position. It doesn't bode well for the safety of our infrastructure in the not too distant future.

    • @dmac2573
      @dmac2573 2 роки тому +1

      I agree about the ICE.Membership and chartership are necessary evils but are going off the rails.

    • @nickjung7394
      @nickjung7394 2 роки тому +1

      Have you looked at the antics of Universities HR?

  • @jehoover3009
    @jehoover3009 2 роки тому +11

    There is no crueler tyranny than that which
    perpetuated under the shield of law and in the
    name of justice'
    - Baron de Montesquieu

  • @LeeGee
    @LeeGee 2 роки тому +3

    Aw, I literally had no idea the SDP still existed...
    Great speech, much appreciated. Thank you, SDP....

  • @NPC-st7zv
    @NPC-st7zv 2 роки тому +21

    Glad to see this being uploaded.
    Would have liked to attend, but unable to get to London for that time in the morning.

  • @Xfranman
    @Xfranman 2 роки тому +5

    The man is a genius. He is a prophet. SHAME on any and all who, lesser creatures indeed, have had the temerity to "cancel" such a gift and treasure. FIGHT. RESIST. I am white. I'm as good as anyone.

  • @simongreaves9465
    @simongreaves9465 Рік тому

    Mr Starkey always knows what he is talking about. He is a fantastic educator, and it is so refreshing to hear words that are more than hot air.

  • @glennewell2436
    @glennewell2436 2 роки тому +5

    I would undoubtedly be arguing with the man within minutes of meeting him, but you can't help loving him. A man for all reasons.

  • @ladyflibblesworth7282
    @ladyflibblesworth7282 2 роки тому +5

    there are not many people that I would trust with their opinion. It takes years of being right consistently.....But this guy makes my 5 person list

  • @michaeloakes2167
    @michaeloakes2167 2 роки тому +7

    the torch of reason has been passed from powell to starkey

  • @ric6383
    @ric6383 2 роки тому +5

    I now deliberately avoid the word 'professional'. After 20 years in a 'professional' career, they're simply better at lying and being a hypocrite than other areas of employment.

  • @willforest5302
    @willforest5302 2 роки тому +9

    i am not a social democrat, i am deeply conservative and a libertarian, but id vote for the SDP simply because they are patriots and oppose wokeness

    • @22448824
      @22448824 2 роки тому +3

      Same. Though I would like to see some wealth distribution.

    • @jameselliott8203
      @jameselliott8203 2 роки тому +2

      I think now that political parties names are meaningless and its the actions and policies are what matter .

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 роки тому

      @@22448824
      The best wealth distribution of all is a free market approach and low taxation. Allowing everybody to get a bite of the pie and in turn allowing more people to make the pie bigger.

  • @rich1701
    @rich1701 2 роки тому +11

    There must be No compromise for leftism. None whatsoever.

    • @lewis123417
      @lewis123417 2 роки тому

      I'm a Conservative and your comment is incredibly stupid. Child labour laws, a minimum wage, workplace safety regulation, all at one point left wing policies now embraced by almost all wings of politics

    • @everythingflows3639
      @everythingflows3639 2 роки тому +1

      @@lewis123417 I'm making no comment on the original post, but the regulation of the economy is not necessarily left wing. See Richard Oastler and the Tory Radicals of the 19th century for example. I believe the majority of the Factory Acts were passed by Tories, rather than the Liberals.

    • @CarlosMartinez-vk4nd
      @CarlosMartinez-vk4nd 2 роки тому +1

      @@lewis123417 are you a right wing populist or something? just asking

    • @lewis123417
      @lewis123417 2 роки тому

      @@CarlosMartinez-vk4nd not a populist at all, not a fan of trump or Boris Johnson. I'm more of a centrist

  • @Gozzillacia
    @Gozzillacia 2 роки тому +7

    This is brilliant - I just tried to post it on Facebook - but it wont post ~ truth is dangerous !

  • @sorrysirmygunisoneba
    @sorrysirmygunisoneba 2 роки тому +1

    I couldn’t think of a better advisor that the government needs right now than this man.

  • @newcjon
    @newcjon 2 роки тому +7

    Just superb

  • @abstractacus1598
    @abstractacus1598 2 роки тому +6

    Fantastic! I love it when DS explains how painting had to be put on a conceptual level to escape from the 'dirty messiness' of its application.

  • @russellwhite1581
    @russellwhite1581 2 роки тому +5

    Social Democracy is the incorrect name for this party. If we look at Social Democracy it has its roots in Marxism, whereas the SDP here is closer to Chesterbelloc Distributism.

  • @robinlillian9471
    @robinlillian9471 2 роки тому +3

    The woke are wishing they never messed with him. It's backfiring splendidly.

  • @WILKSVILLE
    @WILKSVILLE 2 роки тому +5

    The road to hell explained right there.

  • @nicksmith3245
    @nicksmith3245 2 роки тому +4

    A magnificent man.
    The thing about professions is that they get more money. The worst thing they ever did with the nhs was make nursing a profession instead of a vocation.

    • @daisyroots8926
      @daisyroots8926 2 роки тому +1

      Absolutely 👍🏻

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 роки тому +1

      Unions are the worse thing to have happened with the NHS. First they started out representing their members and standing up for them but they then developed into a political party pushing policy and trying to decide elections.

  • @mikenadel4749
    @mikenadel4749 2 роки тому

    a master historian and one of the great philosopher of our time

  • @benphilips9918
    @benphilips9918 2 роки тому +4

    Professor Starkey might have mentioned journalists who are also busy turning their own trade into a profession and have likewise signed up to this new agenda, Channel4 and the BBC being supreme examples.

  • @RealDukeOfEarl
    @RealDukeOfEarl 2 роки тому

    The moment the SDP appear on the ballot in my constituency, they have my vote and campaign support.

  • @lydiamalone1859
    @lydiamalone1859 2 роки тому +5

    Whenever I see the words, Social Democrat, I think of huge government bureaucracies micromanaging every aspect of a person's life because they believe government is always the solution and knows best for us.

  • @OdditiesandRarities
    @OdditiesandRarities 2 роки тому +5

    the people who work in monopolies, tend to have monopolised thought..

  • @alvanrigby6361
    @alvanrigby6361 2 роки тому +2

    This is one brilliant man.

  • @barrykeown7323
    @barrykeown7323 2 роки тому +3

    David, congratulations. More contextualising what the average person cannot see is required. I love the sperech! Barry Kwon in Sydney

  • @sabineduret2512
    @sabineduret2512 2 роки тому +9

    👏👏👏👏👏

  • @rainblaze.
    @rainblaze. 2 роки тому

    How exquisitely delicious it is to hear someone at a SDP meeting of the faithful, speak --wholly and without irony --about the displacement of quasi religion. And starkey perhaps not with standing it should,of coarse, be partaken with a supreme essence of relish

  • @jillkursner6494
    @jillkursner6494 2 роки тому +2

    Brilliant....as usual!

  • @marinedrive5484
    @marinedrive5484 2 роки тому +3

    That's the best exposition of 'professionalism' and 'liberalism' I've ever heard, and then contextualizing them in the present-day, woke, virtue-signaling world, which gives one a real sense of how toxic both of these words, and the groups they represent have become are. Wonderful.

  • @trevorcox3669
    @trevorcox3669 2 роки тому +3

    I am a normal worker and what he said about GPS is true .sadly we don't forget years ago what a white coat and stethoscope meant to us

  • @johnjaw19
    @johnjaw19 2 роки тому

    Excellent from David Starkey. As ever.

  • @RedversCross
    @RedversCross 2 роки тому +2

    Imagine a heterosexual man making lewd comments about women. Double standards.

  • @Angloman516
    @Angloman516 2 роки тому

    As someone of Right of Centre viewpoint I'm not of SDP leaning. However, I was most surprised that David Starkey received an invite to speak at the SDP conference, it does the party much credit, particularly in view of the recent condemnation of him by professional bodies.

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 роки тому

      Do you believe in Life, Liberty and property?

    • @Angloman516
      @Angloman516 2 роки тому +1

      @@bighands69 Who wouldn't?

  • @drsigh
    @drsigh 2 роки тому +3

    He's not wrong, but he touches upon ideas first mooted over half a century ago by Michael Young in his great The Rise of the Meritocracy.

  • @bsport131
    @bsport131 2 роки тому +2

    I wish these smaller parties would work together to oust this government or at least labour

  • @clivemarriott7749
    @clivemarriott7749 2 роки тому

    An awesome ramble far across the origins of reformation from modernity to wokedom. Best dissertations i have heard on it, gave me a real buzz. Well done sir.

  • @petergrossett6763
    @petergrossett6763 2 роки тому +1

    Bravo!

  • @zippy_uk1046
    @zippy_uk1046 2 роки тому +1

    Great speech. Institutions need to focus on functional outcomes, not social values and types of people in them. Effectively they have become weak and fraudulent. We are all suffering from the tyranny of virtue.

  • @aindriubradleymarshall6226
    @aindriubradleymarshall6226 2 роки тому +1

    He speaks truth ...........

  • @leonardharris9930
    @leonardharris9930 2 роки тому

    Profoundly Brilliant !!

  • @daddycool228
    @daddycool228 2 роки тому +1

    Hence the chaos that ensues. The carnival came to town and forgot to leave.

  • @jamesmurphy8859
    @jamesmurphy8859 2 роки тому +2

    Well said sir 👏👏👏👏

  • @arabellac
    @arabellac 2 роки тому +1

    spectacular

  • @kevinkowlessar6469
    @kevinkowlessar6469 2 роки тому +1

    Thank God he’s rare. “Damn blacks “ steep in intellectual prowess

  • @GhostDcuo
    @GhostDcuo 2 роки тому +7

    After briefly browsing the polices on the SDP website, i have to say they look pretty good. Just my personal preference but changing the democratic to nationalist would be more my cup of tea, but that's just me.

    • @Cam-sl8ve
      @Cam-sl8ve 2 роки тому +5

      the Social Nationalist Party...? aka SNP... probably not a good idea lmao

    • @jameselliott8203
      @jameselliott8203 2 роки тому +1

      @@Cam-sl8ve Laughing here and I think I've found my political home .

    • @GhostDcuo
      @GhostDcuo 2 роки тому +1

      @@Cam-sl8ve Welcome to the home of a person that can't process three letters.

  • @daisyroots8926
    @daisyroots8926 2 роки тому

    David Starkey for knighthood

  • @annrogers8129
    @annrogers8129 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for calling out that sacred cow that is the NHS.

  • @davidmorrison2739
    @davidmorrison2739 2 роки тому

    A light on the hill, if one may indulge in cliches.

  • @balthazar4289
    @balthazar4289 2 роки тому

    Absolutely right when he says organisations should not have values. I am reminded of Sheffield City Council banning Roy Chubby Brown on this basis, as if they could legislate for the values of the 600,000 individuals within its boundaries. Dangerous and insane.

  • @seanmoran2743
    @seanmoran2743 Рік тому

    Remember he will defend Britain at the cost of England and the other nations on this island

  • @winstonsmith7652
    @winstonsmith7652 2 роки тому +1

    The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  • @seanmoran2743
    @seanmoran2743 Рік тому

    Remember he’s heroes are Churchill and Thatcher
    Money and Power

  • @robertamulligan7746
    @robertamulligan7746 2 роки тому

    Yet another great and inciteful speech from Dr. Starkey. And very well done by the SNP for entertaining a truly diverse cast of speakers, which would not be seen, let alone tolerated, by the other main political parties.

  • @bloodboughtbigphilr8266
    @bloodboughtbigphilr8266 2 роки тому

    The SDP with the right promotion and exposure have the potential to be major players in British politics. The values they espouse are those of the average voter in what were the Red Wall strongholds, the very people that Labour abandoned in their adoption of woke identity politics and who not a few in their now metro middle class activist base view with contempt . Those who out of desperation have lent their votes to the Tories are at heart Social Democrats. The SDP could and should do well in these areas. I would not only vote for you but go out and campaign as well.

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 роки тому

      Unfortunately the conservative party is not being run on conservative values and is trying to perform social engineering.

  • @petah-peoplefortheendlesst4668
    @petah-peoplefortheendlesst4668 2 роки тому

    Is Starkey officially endorsing the SDP? I feel like he is extremely disappointed with all of the parties represented in Westminster atm.

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 роки тому +1

      More than likely not.
      He is there as a guest speaker and getting paid for it. It is very common for people like himself to speak at events and get paid for it.
      Clearly he makes the speeches relevant to the audience but also speaks his mind.

  • @rlk54
    @rlk54 2 роки тому

    Is it the Social Democratic Party or the Socialist Democratic Party? If is social as not socialist then this is the right way. After all, many people are very social and yet not socialist.

  • @petercolledge2236
    @petercolledge2236 2 роки тому

    Funny that David rails against the 'professional', given that this is his class as well.

  • @cyylee5606
    @cyylee5606 2 роки тому +2

    Democracy and egalitarianism got us in this mess, you ain't gonna fix it.

  • @johnphelan8999
    @johnphelan8999 2 роки тому

    I think Starkey mis-defining (or at the very least using an antiquated definition of) the term 'profession' to suit his argument.

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 роки тому

      He most certainly is not. The professions such as Law, medicine, teaching, finance and civil service all look down their noses at the "working class". And it is the professions that like to lecture people on morality to the point that they are interfering in the policy of everyday life.

    • @johnphelan8999
      @johnphelan8999 2 роки тому

      @@bighands69 I've always considered a profession to be a paid job which requires extensive training ending with a formal qualification. To that end I think there are quite a few trades which qualify as professions - many of which do involve manual work.

  • @robertewing3114
    @robertewing3114 2 роки тому

    Within the timing of boiling an egg DS describes the 1948 book called The Gathering Storm, yes the gathering storm of Woke - yet does not say Winston-Woke, does not say WSC the Father of Woke, and does not even say Do you get the Yoke?
    Churchill said of it, This is not history, this is my case.
    He was being honest, This is not truth, this is my woke.
    Chamberlain was the hero, and traduced by the snobbery ever since, Winston wrote their case and the academics were encouraged along their ruinous path begun by ALR in 1944, though the professional yoke fell on him in 1946, as if Keith Feiling had seen the white of his eyes.

  • @nickjung7394
    @nickjung7394 2 роки тому

    Time to do to "universities" what Henry VIII did to the monasteries!

  • @awol2602
    @awol2602 2 роки тому

    Well no of course not woke, and nor am I incidentally. But a professional himself (professional historian, at one time promoted as public spokesperson) who used that elevated position to promulgate his own unfounded and poorly examined prejudices as if he were offering insightful and intelligent social analysis.

  • @l4zrh4wk
    @l4zrh4wk 2 роки тому +1

    My god, David Starkey? You’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Unsubbed.

    • @pov_music
      @pov_music 2 роки тому

      He's a Thatcherite - I agree he shouldn't really be speaking for the SDP but I don't make the rules.

  • @markchidgey5205
    @markchidgey5205 2 роки тому

    Ok, so the SDP is further to the right of the Conservative party.

  • @johngladwaller2436
    @johngladwaller2436 2 роки тому

    13:49 He was investigated for saying "damn blacks" not "damn" lol

  • @sidevans1
    @sidevans1 2 роки тому

    4 minutes in he accuses 'liberal professions' of snobbery - followed by 'did anyone here do classics?' and a load of academic bollocks. Pot, meet kettle.

  • @awol2602
    @awol2602 2 роки тому +1

    I am amazed at how many supportive comments there are for a man who epitomises the problem he is railing against

    • @golfbulldog
      @golfbulldog 2 роки тому +3

      You might need to flesh out that idea a bit...

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 2 роки тому +2

      You need to explain that one?

  • @davidaemayhew
    @davidaemayhew 2 роки тому

    Don’t understand what he is getting at.

  • @richjones4956
    @richjones4956 2 роки тому

    Referendum on Immigration...

  • @hakeemahmadjamal7403
    @hakeemahmadjamal7403 2 роки тому

    🤣🤣

  • @Phil_D_Waller
    @Phil_D_Waller 2 роки тому

    WOKE!!!! WOKE!!!