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Quote from: drfchound on August 08, 2024, 07:39:37 pmAmazing isn’t it how some journalists are considered to be brilliant but others who aren’t agreeable to the author are dismissed as gobshites.Almost as if………….Assuming BST's recollection of the journalist's racist comments are correct, I don't get your point. I understand you don't like BST from disagreements over a period of time, but that doesn't mean you can never agree with him, does it?In this particular case your dislike of BST, and your need to show that, detracts from the debate over this journalist and his credentials don't you think?I'm not defending BST by the way, I just don't see the need for you to have a pop.
Amazing isn’t it how some journalists are considered to be brilliant but others who aren’t agreeable to the author are dismissed as gobshites.Almost as if………….
HoundHe’s a long standing historian, (which he ought to stick to) been on the tele regularly for ever. Surprised you’ve never come across him over the years
Hound.I’ve never seen GB news either.Starkey was a mainstay of the BBC History output for years.
Starkey:''During the 2011 Conservative Party Conference he spoke at a fringe meeting, declaring Mayor Boris Johnson to be a "jester-despot" and the Prime Minister, David Cameron, as having "absolutely no strategy" for running the country. He urged the party to re-engage with the working class rather than the "Guardian-reading middle class".[41] In 2015 he claimed that while Cameron and his Chancellor, George Osborne, had introduced some meaningful reforms to education and welfare policies, they had not made large enough cuts to the UK's budget deficit''https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Starkey#Politics
Wasn't Starkey one of those involved in the holocaust/genocide debate a few years back?
Amazing Fact:David Starkey is the brother of the late jockey Greville Starkey who rode the great Dancing Brave and was famous for barking like a dog at his mounts to make them go faster.His other brother Richard Starkey achieved very little.David inherited Grevilles fortune and is using part of it to help fund the reopening of Doncaster Airport.
Don’t be ridiculous hound.The line about Richard Starkey achieving very little, was the best line in my little skit.
Stretching it a bit to have me believe your first reply was tongue in cheek, but if it makes you happy I’ll go with that.Enjoy the game tomorrow!
I think if you read the whole wiki article about Starkey, then you’d come to the same conclusion BST and me did.