David Starkey : (4)

" My father, Bob, was a sweet, gentle man who was prone to frustration. I hardly knew him as a child, but that was typical of those days. He got up early, came home late and wanted to be left alone. " - David Starkey

" The BBC is in many ways wonderful, but it is not good at recognising when a programme has come to the end of its natural life. " - David Starkey

" Listen to David Lammy, an archetypal successful black man. If you turn the screen off so that you are listening to him on radio you would think he was white. " - David Starkey

" The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that by definition business must run things more efficiently. " - David Starkey