'Modernity was invented in Britain' - David Starkey hits back at Greta Thunberg 

Ask him about Slavery!

I Agree with that, he would be a big asset to GB News . I have found he always says it as it is .

I miss Dr Starkey in the media. Passionate talented convincing persona.

Dr David Starkey has just set up his own YT channel for anyone interested 👇 ru-vid.com/show-UC6t5oQs-YSfhgOC4Y5UEqqA "Why I've started my own RU-vid Channel" (Dr David Starkey interview with Peter Whittle 29-10-21) m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3rIeU_Enpn4.html

Please make David Starkey prime minister 😐

Totally agree with you

Way was stark canceled??

@@harry-thepug76 because he said "If slavery had of been genocide then there wouldn't be so many damn blacks" something along those lines.

@@guidomraeno7213 aye, and everyone trying to cancel him wilfully misread and misrepresented the context of “damn[ed]” (clearly classic British linguistic emphasis while exasperated, not moral condemnation of said peoples). Slavery ≠ genocide, they’re completely different abhorrent acts. Shouldn’t be conflated lest we undermine the weight of both.

@@guidomraeno7213 how could such an interesting, very intelligent man like Dr David starkey be so racist & stupid to ruin his career by saying something like that?!

Greta is lovely Dave is OK too Scotland is to blame for the whole damn modern world. Bloody Jocks. "With a population of just over 5 million, the Scots are a rare bunch graced with endless innovation and epiphanies. The source of numerous genius inventions, the fun doesn’t end with Irn-Bru, whisky, Burns Suppers and deep-fried Mars Bars! Discover just 25 incredible things from Scotland that have made the world a better place." Dave has a very jaundiced view of his neighbours oop north ...why....why....?

@@rabburns1382 William Wallace was a rent boy.

@@rabburns1382 It is a fact that the English and the Scots both had a ton of geniuses who worked off each other's inventions and either improved upon them or came up with some other wonder. That's not to exclude the Welsh and Irish either who have also had their great men and women. It shows what a great entity the United Kingdom is and what it has achieved together. Those that are trying to break it apart don't know what they are doing, or if they do are just plainly malicious. The British Empire was also a collaboration of the four UK countries. The Scots had a great input to the running and creation of the Empire although the Scottish National Socialists are pretending they didn't.

White racist

@@sidnotvicious8442 Spot on my friend... I have always thought that the English & the Scots had a great mutual working relationship.... For hundreds of years.... The UK as a whole became Great Britain.... Why anyone would want to destroy such a well-working, efficient, machine is totally beyond me. The SNP is not working working for the benefit of its people..... It IS MALICIOUS... But, more than that, it is hurtful to both sides.

never heard of him!

@@mathematics5573 I think Nigel Farage is more deserving.

Love Mrs Starkey

@@paulanderson3709 Never heard of him!

If he was cancelled by Cambridge Wokiversity he must be doing something right.

Don’t think GBN go in for cancel culture.

Here! Here!. 👍

And when you think of the suffering of those who helped advance the country and the rest of the world, how can anyone regard them as privileged?

Britain is Greater than both Greece and Rome. I'm not British myself but that's the proper perspective on Britain.

The last few years have been pretty shite though...

@@perperson199 I'm quite hesitant to say that though personally. Although the scale of the effect Britain has had on the course of history is certainly unmatched, it wouldn't have happened without those that came before. Our success was built upon the foundations left for us by Greece and Rome, and I'll ever be grateful for what they contributed to our species.

Gaurdianisters?! What, all 4 of them!

I'm a Guardian reader but I'm not pissed off. I'm happy that you and all your Gbeebies chums are glad to have this man back.

Socialist/Commy/Fascist 101 put a label on it and then ridicule it until the general populous do the same, we see you as the modern Nazis. Gbeebies is where the child like intellects of Guardianistas hangout in their safe spaces.

Quite right. I laughed when he really delighted in that unprompted mention of the Union.

Who is this man claiming to be the voice of reason? I don’t hear much in the way of solutions from this Starkey character.

@@sizzlebird1 says someone who hasnt accomplished anything compared to Starkey

@@sizzlebird1 You can’t even defend the two sentences you’ve written - utter plonker

@@johnmiddlehurst3309 I say old chap, I think you’re being rather harsh on utter plonkers, what? 🧐

Unfortunately he made the mistake of apologising. If he didn't do that he may have got away with it.

@@barryevans791 yeah. That was a colossal mistake. Doesn’t help that that slime Grimes threw him (his supposed “hero”) under the bus faster than you can blink…

@@barryevans791 1

He is a petulant old queen.

@@taffyman6089 I know, which is why we need more people like him that actually speak their mind rather than cowering to the Twitter brigade.

Totally agree

@J. LewisI think perhaps you may have taken his comments somewhat out of context. I'm a Catholic too, and I understood what he was saying and I took no offence from it.

@J. Lewis No he was not. Try to understand joined up thinking.

Starkey's not a genius - but he is a very engaging, erudite speaker who has a talent for invigorating his subject (history) to the benefit of his audience. I could happily listen to him talk about history for hours. I hope GB News invite Dr. Starkey on more often to offer his historical perspectives. I always feel I learn something when he gets to speak.

That would be superb! A brilliant man and a great broadcaster. A wonderful antidote to the epidemic of dumbed down wokism!

You mean white washed history due to the fact his thoughts on black people have been made well known. By him.

If you want to go back to real history listen to Akala at the Oxford Uni lecture series on RU-vid. You might realise a few things.

nay, scot-germanic donald trump reminiscing on his eco fight in Aberdeen, bullying a 90 yr old...claim

Pack your bags, we're there...

Hysterically illiterate is nearer the mark when describing this phenomenon

For 2000 years we were in thrall to some random jewish bloke who heard voices.

@@annoyedbykes5741 From Google: Technically speaking, Asperger’s Syndrome falls under the ASD (autism spectrum disorders) umbrella, which includes a wide-ranging number of subsets, such as autism, high-functioning autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, non-verbal learning disability (NVLD), and many iterations in between

@@donutemptycircle8717 I always wondered why Woody Allen hasn't aged well.

Yay!!!

A genuinely intelligent man. We need more of them in public life!

@@beckyenglish4783 agree 100 per cent

Starkey is a terrible old rouge. A real stirrer. He’s great.

@Daniel Page So you keep saying but he sure sounds different from every other historian broadcaster we're lumped with now. For a start he addresses us as adults, which makes a change from the silly females who make me feel as if I'm being spoken to by nanny (and before you accuse me of misogyny, as my avatar indicates, I'm a woman).

Cancelation

@J. Lewis you're just following the context from the woke folk who cancelled him. The word "damn" was used as an expression of anger towards the activist idiots who are very irritatingly attempting to rewrite history. The fact he used the words so clumbsily on the day were stupid and emotionally charged, but were never intended to be derogatory to black people. He (Mr Starkey) is the first to admit that his words were very poorly chosen in that moment, and I fully agree. But this was a classic slip of the tongue, nothing more and certainly did not warrant the opportunistic outrage that seems so very prevalent in today's society.

@@grahamlyons8522 petulance!

good, but *cancellation* mate

@@grahamlyons8522 Cancellation, lol

and the woke HATE him. Bonus.

He is setting up his own RU-vid channel. Talking about History, can't wait.

Do you think that Jo Brand should be cancelled?

Histrionic charlatans indeed. Amusingly, it's usually the most histrionic who don't know their history.

He mentioned that his family were from Oldham....Honest working class folk I'll wager. Be interesting to hear his views on the child grooming rife there now and nearby Rochdale.........

I think he would do well with those ASMR meditation audios.

I don’t know how he’s perceived in the UK but I always loved blunt, to the point people, even if they’re not always pc.

Britain's greatest living historian? Really? How many do you know?

@@Lunarfacia I know twenty three and by far he’s the best.

@@saltynutsman1 why?

He's not back on TV. He's on GB News. That says it all. A refuge for failures.

@@Unwise- Indeed. Even after the abolition of "International" slavery. (By Britain!)...Britain still had kids down mines & up chimneys... These people banging on about "Britain & It's 'empire'" Need to get a grip...... And they also need to look around the world TODAY... 2022. Yes --- 2022.... Slavery is now YOUR Problem. Slavery is rife...who is doing what to who.?...... It ain't Britain.... It's your own people...Every Time. Face the truth. Your own Governments are making slaves of you. They sold you out. Who you gonna blame? Britain? Again? Get real.... sick & tired of your constant whining. Clean up your own backyard.

@Harry You can have the nasty little anti Scottish little Englander

Next thing will say Abraham was a great man cause he said all men are created equal which didn't include blacks. Search about this guy life before pronounce him a hero, he's a far right nationalist where britain is everything and the rest nothing

Correct. Plus dried peat from the peat marshes dried and cow dung, all that carbon, eh. Greta wont know that, she was only repeating what was written for her. Not as if she has spent much time in school. to learn all this history.

Certainly not on an industrial scale. That is the point. Since 1800 the global temperature has been rising. Before then there had been more or less similar rates. You seem to deny historical fact. The choice should be either to continue on this trajectory of global destruction or make changes to how we organise our economy - on a profit basis or based on human needs and sustainable technologies.

@@sbor2020 With what you said at the end you give away the whole climate agenda. It is just to try impose dreadful Marxist policies on the world because you can never win elections for your policies.

@@Anonymous-qw Negative, negative, negative. Are you as boring as your tedious bod-like troll account betrays? Your comment is tedious even by GB News standards. At least you get some of what Orwell called ''euphemism, question begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.'' Not you. So, tell us how do you envisage a better world?

@@sbor2020 Since the late 1800's the earths mean global temperature has risen by around 1degree Celsius, in line with historic earth cycles. From 1976 to 2001 the mean temperature rose by nearly 0.5 degrees Celsius In the last 20 years to 2021 the change has been close to zero. You can argue all you want, the mean global temperature has risen, including short term peaks, by around 1 degree Celsius, as per the earth normal cycle of events from recorded history. 🐏

"Time"...? I always have and I urge you to join me.

NO PROBLEMS??? NO POLLUTION??HOORAY!!

@@ulrikjensen6841 Pollution is not climate, you DUMMY!

You sound like you know what you're talking about. How long have you been studying climate science? Where is your research base?

Yes the 150 people watching him should enjoy it !!!!

@@andylane247 Okaaaaay 🤔

@@Johnny-sj9sj GB news. Sort of Broadmoor TV !!!

@@andylane247 so the other 9204 people voted, despite not watching the program? When people say to you, "just how stupid can you be", they don't actually mean it as a challenge.

@Alex Mit Not 113 people viewing it a 1000 times each?!!!!

True. I always laugh when I hear Fox talking heads say that America is the greatest nation on earth. As much as I'm fond of the U.S it's not even close.

@@ezioauditore3128 no our achievements in the history of human progress is unparalleled from Isaac Newton to Adam Smith or Darwin, Magna Carta ,John Lock ,The Levellers ,John Stuart Mill. Winston Churchill. John Harrison are all pioneers of the worlds greatest nation.

@@ezioauditore3128 not to mention the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge Rutherford, Dirac, JJ Thompson

Other countries are and will probably be forever Jealous of this so so Clever little jem of an Island.

Your right 😀😀😀😀

He's far to good for that pile of 💩..😉

I remember him from 'The Moral Maze' on Radio 4. TYhen I thought he was an obnoxious boor, but now I recognise him as an academic of high intellect who doesn't suffer fools gladly.

The narrative can't stand up to such a force so they simply refuse to engage with it.

That's when question time was worth watching .. even with that guy who likes digging .. Baldrick

@@sanddancer1951 Yes, I felt that back then listening to him, but now we can see his reason for antipathy to cant in the proper context. I remember he did give Wedgie Benn a hard time once on Moral Maze, which was enjoyable. I'd rather a man (or woman) spoke their real mind, rather than resort to the weasley cant and equivocation of political correctness, which has ridden across the face of mainstream politics and completely poxed it over - like a plague rat across Europe in the 14thC. Political correctness has been probably the most toxically corrosive con of our times, clapped up by an elite middle class who use it to consolidate their hold on institutional and intellectual power. It has made lies and hypocrisy into an emolument scheme for the socially ambitious and the metropolitan dinner-party castes.

I wonder what happened to the Canadian girl that played her part in the 1990's. Severn Cullis-Suzuki is her name.

She wants people to continue to see her as a child, so she can gets away with what she says. But she can't anymore she is getting older & adult.

@@stevenmacdonald9619 Indeed.

@@emmahowells8334 I feel sorry for when she gets older and wiser, and realises she was used as a puppet by those who profit from the 'green' industries. If people realised the costs involved in putting up just a single wind turbine or solar farm, maybe they would wise up quicker.

@@stevenmacdonald9619 Hope she wises up quicker, but I don't feel sorry for her now she's an adult, like us all when you're an adult you have to deal with the Consequences of your actions, sure I felt sorry when she was a kid, she was used as a puppet, but she needs to see what she is doing is worse than what she's preaching to us all.

Sadly there is NO chance of that happening.

A national treasure

I agree, and also Brazier is just the man to conduct the interview. He’s got it up stairs, along with Neil Oliver.

Agreed..Neil Oliver should have Starkey on his Saturday evening spot...it would be great conversation.

I've loved Dr.Starkeys' incisive intellect, wicked wit and ability to concisely disseminate knowledge for many years...a National Treasure indeed! Its wonderful to see him back on the airwaves again, he's been sorely missed of late. His agregious 'cancellation' by his university, academia and the woke MSM indicates how fearful they are of hearing him exercise his right to free speech and educated opinions! Thank You GBNews, let's have much more of Dr. Starkey on your shows.

A religious nut at Hyde Park Corner.

It is always part of the strategy to give a face to a cause and Greta the face of climate change.

@@elenastone6011 She has the face of a 12 year old and an intellect of a five year old.

The best thing about lockdown was not having to suffer seeing this child on the MSM every other day.

Remember she isn't a child now she is an adult. Greta is one of those well known figures who be regarded as such well into her twenties. Convenient.

Children are a useful tool to push your propaganda because if you criticise them you can be labelled as a terrible human being hating on an innocent child

Don’t forget the worship of baby Jesus.

Just fools with low self esteem listen to what this Swedish broad has to say.

She is not a child. She is 18 yrs old.

@@74mpaul only recently, she’s been a pawn for years

The presenter is really very good. Very measured and authoritative at the same time. Time for Britain to regain a sense of confidence for creating the modern world, having had that mantle illegitimately stolen by the US.

Your comment made me laugh hysterically because as soon as I read that I could not stop thinking of her as the Swedish chef from the Muppet show(I don't know if you know the character?) The irony is that they are actually both puppets,we never see the team or parents behind this childs misguided broken youth! Anyway hurdy gurdy hurdy gurdy hurdy gurd😂😂👍

@@martindunstan8043 someone should send her a Head chef hat👩‍🍳👩‍🍳👩‍🍳

@@annoyedbykes5741 why? She’s got nothing to say and is saying it loudly!

I wonder what “blah, blah, blah” is in Swedish?

@@annoyedbykes5741 yes that’s very nice. It appears you have the same affliction too.. now pipe down dear it was a joke! An excellent one I might add!

The sanctity of the guilty 😉

I am in my 60's, well said young person. 👍

sorry should of been thumbs up

proud of our ancestors

She needs "panning out" with cast iron -frying-pan..... silly mare. Her parents need prosecuting for child neglect.

Wait until the economy goes tits up There won’t be much time for all this current cultural crap

Brilliant suggestion, I would definitely watch that! 👍

Spot on 👍

A most excellent idea.

Absolutely totally agree with you love from Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👏👏

With Neil Oliver 😊

2 hrs for me...I can't wait...its got to happen 👏