David Starkey on TRIGGERnometry: the state is broken
A long-form interview transcript in which Starkey lays out the constitutional argument in full.
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A curated selection of press coverage, lectures, interviews and political developments relating to David Starkey and the Starkey Thesis. Every item links to its original source. Updated periodically.
Conservatives adopt leaving the ECHR and repealing the Human Rights Act
After a legal review by Lord Wolfson, the party makes the thesis's headline remedy official policy.
BBC News
“We must repudiate Blairism”: the thesis stated in full
The single clearest statement of the argument, in lecture form.
David Starkey Talks
The Labour case for the ECHR
George Peretz notes that Lord Glasman has called for the UK to leave the ECHR, a strand of Labour scepticism.
UK Constitutional Law Association
Britain is no longer a democracy
A long conversation testing the argument across immigration, the courts and the economy.
The Peter McCormack Show
Bingham's Failed Revolution
Starkey on Lord Bingham, the law lord at the centre of the human-rights story.
The Critic
David Starkey: the monarchy is fading into irrelevance
A wide-ranging interview on the monarchy, the constitution and national decline.
The Telegraph
The Rise and Fall of the British Constitution
How the constitution was built up over centuries, and how it was dismantled.
David Starkey Talks
Tories must back ECHR exit to survive, says Jenrick
An early sign of the thesis's remedy moving into mainstream party politics.
BBC News
To save Britain we must reverse Blair's revolution
Conference address setting out the case for undoing the post-1997 settlement.
New Culture Forum
