David Starkey’s declne from competent historian to reactionary nitwit has been a sad business. I’m afraid it shows no sign of abating either. The Huffington Post has this:
Historian Dr David Starkey has compared Scottish first minister Alex Salmond to Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler.
“If you think about it, Alex Salmond is a democratic Caledonian Hitler, although some would say Hitler was more democratically elected,” he said.
“[For him] the English, like the Jews, are everywhere” he added to gasps from the audience.
Starkey was speaking at a debate, hosted by the Bow Group think tank, on the teaching of British history in UK schools.
Oh dear. Granted, one would like to see a transcript of Starkey’s remarks so one could judge their context but, really, even if considered a piece of rhetorical impishness of the kind reserved for debating this is ridiculous, shaming stuff.
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