Nonsense Quote by David Starkey

“The idea that it's only the young or people who've grown up with a technology who can appreciate it. Complete nonsense!”

David Starkey

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I hate niceness.

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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and…

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Churchill may have made some horrendous mistakes - Gallipoli, for one - but he had a sense of the profundity and integrity of the English experience. By contrast, Blair believes he excised the past in 1997, though what no one on the left seems to have realised is that his historic mission was to destroy the Labour party, not the Tories.

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We have this extraordinarily unbalanced constitution, in which we have an elected dictatorship of the prime minister.

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Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they…

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Floating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest.

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The reign of Henry VIII is the axis around which England turns.

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What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother.

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Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether it's here, or in Paris or Mexico or Spain or London or whatever, and say, "I want to do this, are you interested?" They'll answer the next day. With a movie, it's all, "Oh, I see…

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