David Starkey: I’m Guilty of Heresy Against the Religion of Woke

Clip from David Starkey’s first interview (see here: since being cancelled for a comment he made in a 2020 YouTube interview (dealing with slavery & genocide). In this era of woke, when once venerable institutions can no longer be relied upon, Dr. Starkey found himself removed, dropped, ejected or forced to resign from one notable body after another -- from Fitzwilliam College & the University of Cambridge to the British Library & the Royal Historical Society -- with little recourse for appeal. He believes that the institutional elites who choose to react in such harsh ways are creating a stifling, authoritarian culture that is immensely destructive, both to academia and wider society.