David Starkey

How Kemi Badenoch’s Tories can rebuild Britain

3 November 2024 11:00 am

The Conservatives finally have a new leader. But Kemi Badenoch must be under no illusions: after the disastrous July election,…

I’ve been investigated by the Keystone Cops

31 October 2020 9:00 am

Even in this bizarre year of Covid (for everybody) and ‘cancellation’ (for me), the last week or two has stood…

What Uber rides taught me about immigration

21 July 2018 9:00 am

It was blessedly cool inside the Romanesque nave, its massive arches resisting the heat as they had done everything else…

David Starkey’s diary: Why don’t we celebrate the triumphs of private dentistry?

18 April 2015 9:00 am

To the dentist. And for an extraction. I hadn’t had a tooth out in decades. But the twinges when I…