Starkey and those darkies

Maybe one should congratulate David Starkey for bagging lashings of spotlight publicity, in the twilight of a very public career by using a few well chosen words on a high br television discussion
The words 'Enoch Powell was right' have ultimately immortalised him with prestigious status among the far right fascist groups as a spokesman whose qualifications are determined by his scholastic cv
On the neo-nazi on-line publication  the Occidental Observer , Starkey graces the latest cover page. He stands arms folded looking boldly down at the camera in a smug power ranger pose like the kid who got the cream
 His article is entitled 'David Starkey on Black Culture and Non-Racial English Nationalism'. Above that is the publication title and subtitle ' White identity, interests and culture'.
Its blueprint of Aaryan skinhead support and anti-semitism under a genteel title itself explains how Starkey went from a zero to a poster boy.
After 892 complaints to the culpable bbc who already parried the previous furore over their hosting of a bnp representative the ensuing national debate merged  into wether Starky was a racist or society too pc

Starkey's moment began when he mentioned a girl stealing shoes during the UK riots , then he set the mark . I've just been reading Enoch Powell. His prophecy was 'ab-solutely right'
It doesn't take an intellect to predict the fallout of such a statement given the time and place.  It was at worst, inflammatory for it would and has appealed to the most divisive of far right organisations. At best it would've served the implied purpose of being informative but for the all white rioting videos in Salford, the millionaire's daughter, ballerina, youtube rucksack mugger, Cheshire internet instigators, youtube boy who unseated the motorcyclist, 47 year old doughnut thief, youtube video called riot girls brag about violence and plenty more.
Having placed responsibility on the door of black gangsters, black culture and patois, exposing how miniscule his exposure to black people is or for that matter how much regard he has for fact , slander or anybody black, he then said that there was no inter-communal violence, which was surely the crux of Powell's hypocritical rant.

He and Starkey both customised an age old rant to suit the racial demographic that would help them to propel their careers: Uglier in Starkey's case as there are a multitude of nationalities in the UK today. By nature of extolling Powell  Starkey created and consistantly re-confirmed a black vs white idea ; black being uncivil and white being respectable implied in his David Lammy rant. It was infantile to make the point of his accent. Do Alison Hammond, Ortis Deley, Trevor Nelson, to name a few contemporary celebs among thousands of articulate black english, sound white ? Or do they just sound as though they don't subscribe to a contemporary strand of youth culture or for that matter an Etonian drawl .
Odd that a man of Starkey's worldly experience seemed to produce such narrow minded ignorance and then to propagate such inflammatory mis-information
Obviously the limited slang he mistakingly calls Jamaican patois ( though it is a weak attempt to emulate), berates him. It berates me too but Starkey's obsession causes him to indulge in terms like bling culture which spilled out of his mouth like a festered haemorrhage forgetting that holistically the world and sundry quaintly borrow from the same commercial culture. Even BBC presenters 'big up' artists, using various finger signs and 'spudding' fists in all entertainment genres. Even prince William is known to have adopted the odd posture but no-one leaves that solely at the door of last year's BBC walkout, or for that matter the student or poll tax riots with their American upward incantations and cringeworthy, 'I was jus like, oh...my god'


Its a tried and tested formula to blame the dominant youth music culture for a predominantly youthful disturbance. It happened with rock and roll, mods, rockers, punks, skinheads and hippies
But in Starkey's vitriol sunk to shameless depths and the old ' blame the blacks' becomes seasonal like a faithful pup giving pundits like Nick Ferrari parasitical reign to stoke the embers of classic anti-black nationalism with slithering guilty pleasure . His show (Lbc 26/08/11)   was themed 'you can't criticise blacks nowadays because of the pc brigade'. Unpromptetd, he indulged himself in re-affirmations of Starkey's inaccurate babble, and made headstrong focus on black culture influences and even pointlessly revived the buried 'use of the 'n' word' debate.It was his party and he encouraged anyone who agreed. And like a customised parrot he repeated, time and again 'Starkey was absolutely right'
It wouldn't do the impetus of the mob to mention that Starkey has literally made a career out of this headline grabbing method. Of the queen he said
'I think she's got elements a bit like Goebbels in her attitude to culture : 'every time I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver.' I think the queen reaches for her mask. He later expressed support for the monarchy
In 2009  the Scottish government minister for culture and external affairs, called on him to apologise for comments made on a tv programme, when he declared Scotland, Ireland and Wales "feeble little countries".. Cowardly, he later said It was a joke!
Starkey referred to the teaching of Henry VIII as a "feminised history", he said: "so many of the writers who write about this are women and so much of their audience is a female audience. This prompted historian Lucy Worsley to label his comments as misogynous.
He publicly criticised his academic mentor, but when the mentor struck back. Starkey said: "I regret that the thing happened at all."[

He explained in 2007 that his personality has "a tendency towards showmanship... towards self-indulgence and explosion and repartee and occasional silliness and going over the top." The Daily Mail gave him the sobriquet of "the rudest man in Britain", although Starkey claims that his character was part of a "convenient image" calling himself "Dr Rude",

There's nothing wrong with anxiety over youth culture but the corporate media influence behind its styling and promotion is paramount and not beyond the intellect of these men.
But there's a saying ''if you want to test a man's character, give him power.'


Maybe the beeb should know better than to ask a 60 plus year old Tory boy in an ivory tower to elucidate the primal passions of generations of people whose life spheres are alien to his, 
 But then maybe they knew exactly what they were doing

  'We thought because we had power we had wisdom'    Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935.


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Slipping into darkness

As it spread across leafy suburbs the only tangible pattern to the rioting was a cross section of citizens against the establishment. With a non specific age range and a remarkable percentage of females it was a mini uprising save for the overwhelming nature of high street brand consumer theft
But though it was for the most part a free-for-all fanfare of looting, the web of dynamics that converged to this point are the features of intense 24 hour public debate

There's that alienation point. A UNICEF report in 2007 reported that despite living in the fifth richest country, the next generation of UK citizens experience some of the worst levels of poverty . America shows similarities . The research found they regard themselves as less happy, and that they drank more alcohol, took more drugs, and had more underage sex than children overseas. Northern European countries are in stark contrast. Children's charities back then called it a wake up call

The disparity between the rich and poor is among the widest in the developed world, , with the richest 10% earning nine times more than the poorest 10%. The number of people unemployed reached the 2 million mark in 2009 for the first time since 1997. It is now 2.45 million
This includes degree graduates who are unable to acquire table waiting jobs not to mention those who can only string two sentences of english together
They're not addressed by tailored daytime tv presenters peddling a seamless data base of successful career gueasts grinning their way through promotional interviews and frivolous cook-ups. No wine bars of an evening or awayday deals for the jobless
While youth clubs are a commodity of yester year and an unproven correlation their disappearance along with closures of other council facilities have contributed to the evolution of street corner culture where youngsters, now unsupervised see the parameters of their stomping ground as the streets which, unchallenged, they then feel they have a claim to

There's the discipline issue. Legislation that impedes on the relationship between parents and their children has been an insurmountable travesty. We don't only fear disciplining our children, we have learnt to fear our children. Tearaways with guns are given warnings instead of the mandatory custodial sentence.
The judicial system is so laughable that it is folk lore that an imprisonable offence might land the offender a free holiday . Armed burglars are protected by law

Prisoners sue the prison service for thousands for minor issues such as falling out of bed. Serial killer Levi Bellfield is suing for £30,000 for minor cuts received in a prison assault sending out the message that there are no obstacles to making 'that' ever taunting windfall that keeps the rest of us playing the lottery

Given no definitive boundaries why not run rampant. I'm sure it's thrilling
Adults have tied the hands of adults,  given children free reign and will pick up the pieces: poignantly in the case of the broom brigades
No wonder they brave tv cameras barefaced as they loot or set fire to high street stores at lunchtime on summer's afternoons

Recent news is then relegated but it must also be held to account
The countrywide mps' scandal exposed a complacent culture of unsophisticated theft of by political leaders and icons. Their impunitive spoils included porn dvds to restaurants, theatre , adornments and such simplistic  trappings defining objectives for theft by the elite; tangible consumerism.
Cameron expressed indignation, distanced himself conspicuosly  and promised an absolute parliamentary purge; then went on holiday to Spain

Hackgate burst open wide the dynasty of hypocritical swindlers that preside as gatekeepers of our moral values.
Cameron expressed indignation,distanced himself conspicuously , promised an investigation,  then went on holiday

Meanwhile 20% of our children are leaving school illiterate and corporate engineered 24 hour mtv professes Americanised images of debauched precocious  lavish independent teenagers  who fulfill their peer image and appear to want for nothing except sticking a finger up at convention. In the real world utility  bills are on an unprecedented rise leaving disempowered families skint in an ethos of profit before people under an increasingly draconian spotlight

With all the emotive ingredients oscillating in a powder keg , cue fuse, match and spark; a.k.a agitators, idiots and sunshine
Agitators are self explanatory. Possibly in clandestine relations with political organisations and probably still reeling from the royal wedding when free speech was muzzled and shameless opulence dangled in the faces of the have nots who fetched the bill

The idiots also don't warrant much description. Some are jobless and amoral in an era where repsect for adulthood is something of the past as are the social experiences of limited television, phone calls ending at 10pm, cooking dinner or just waiting patiently for gratification. Many idiots are of a gang society and many enjoy the buzz of power through recreational crime and some people  enjoy the opportunism of a spot of free shopping. A nuclear family were caught filling their car boot outside tescos
The looting millionare's daughter illustrates the opportunism for sheer fun through once in a lifetime pack mentality chaos.

When the riots were in full swing  our prime minister who seems to have patented the phrase on ' We are all in this recession together'  was again on holiday in his £9,700 per week villa in Italy. Not as expensive as his chancellor's holiday who, after setting austerity measures jetted off to the world's most expensive resort which boasts costs up to £10,000 per night
Theresa May and Ed Milliband also had to be pressured off of holiday to come back and all blew superflous hot air

In out of touch fashion the government pat themselves on the back for unsustainably deploying 16,000 police to only one of the affected regions, after the horse bolted and went on to trample other cities. Cameron also threatens the use of water cannon which was Commissioner Tom Goodwin refutes is the prime minister's accolade as it is already a policing alternative. Mp Erick Pickles seriously suggests making the prosecuted homeless
On the ground it's the social impact that is the most frightening now. Vigilantes in Enfield were heard by a resident to be shouting 'Let's get the blacks'. Three British Asians were mown down outside a mosque, killing them. After a bus carrying three black boys was publicly attacked hundreds of english defence league supporters emerged and announced their prescence in the shadow of mob rule  . The genie is out of the bottle now and four days of free reign led to a 24 hour conveyor belt of prosecutions
As vigilante behaviour successfully policed their own business communities the bluff of ultimate state law and order has been called and left dismally wanting and the respect it weilded is in the for now at least impotent