{"id":993624,"date":"2021-11-10T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=993624"},"modified":"2021-11-10T09:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T14:28:47","slug":"delingpole-why-im-cancelling-compulsory-vaccination-david-starkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delingpole-why-im-cancelling-compulsory-vaccination-david-starkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Delingpole: Why I&#039;m Cancelling &#039;Compulsory Vaccination&#039; David Starkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdelingpole-why-im-cancelling-compulsory-vaccination-david-starkey%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=993624&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-19-at-15.07.38.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Historian David Starkey has said he is \u2018absolutely in favour of compulsory vaccination.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed on the Triggernometry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NP_yTdVUcz8\">podcast<\/a>, Starkey claimed that history was on his side. He said:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p>If you actually look, one of the great reasons we have eliminated infectious illness it is vaccination\u2026We have eliminated illness after illness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When Starkey went on to claim with characteristic hyperbole that \u2018there\u2019s no libertarian argument against compulsory vaccination\u2019, he was challenged by his interviewer. But Starkey remained insistent:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p>I\u2019m sorry. You are a member of society in which if you go around unvaccinated you are likely to infect others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s quite possible that Starkey\u2019s opinions were coloured by his childhood misery suffering from polio. Starkey\u2019s was the last generation to have been seriously at risk from the disease. After that it was effectively ended by vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s still an odd and unexpected position from a historian better versed than most in the way authoritarian regimes (such as that of his speciality, Henry VIII) routinely abuse power and have no respect for the rights or freedoms of ordinary folk. It\u2019s even odder given Starkey\u2019s recent history as a high profile victim of the cancel culture mob.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Articulate, trenchant, catty, quotable, David Starkey was for a time probably the best-known historian in Britain. The author of several bestselling books on the Tudors, Starkey presented a number of tie-in documentary series, was a regular panellist on BBC political debate shows <em>Question Time<\/em> and <em>The Moral Maze,&nbsp;<\/em>and proved so unassailably bankable that in 2002 Channel 4 paid him \u00a32 million for just 25 hours of TV programming.<\/p>\n<p>His fall from grace, however, was as meteoric as his rise. After some incautious remarks on the subject of slavery in a 2020 podcast, Starkey fell victim to the cancel culture mob. Apologising for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-53308061\">\u2018clumsy\u2019 and \u2018deplorably inflammatory\u2019<\/a> words did him no good whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>As a high profile conservative, Starkey was far too good a scalp for the woke Establishment not to claim. In the subsequent orgy of recrimination, Starkey was abandoned by his publisher, lost his position on the board of the Mary Rose Trust, lost his honorary fellowship at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and a number of other titles and honours he had accumulated in his distinguished, hard-working and honourable career.<\/p>\n<p>It might have been expected that Starkey\u2019s humiliation would have left him chastened, more sympathetic to the plight of the oppressed and perhaps more reluctant to open his mouth without shoving both feet in it.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m cancelling David Starkey. He is not one of us. He\u2019s yet another massive disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historian David Starkey has said he is \u2018absolutely in favour of compulsory vaccination.\u2019 Interviewed on the Triggernometry podcast, Starkey claimed that history was on his side. 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