High life | 7 April 2012

Dr David Starkey is a great man, a Tudor historian, and one of the few academics who tells it like it is. Openly gay, he has no time for prancing queens and other such clown minorities trying to steal a bigger slice of the freebie pie. After last summer’s riots he had the courage to talk about a ‘violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture’ and how, as he put it, ‘the whites have become black’. All while politically correct policy-makers were hand-wringing about inequality and other such urban deprivation myths. He did not endear himself to the PC commissars, and that’s quite an understatement. PC, as intolerant a system of thought as the Salem trials, will simply never accept the truth. In fact, it is a persistent form of untruthfulness, pretending that things are different from what they are.

So-called imams in western Europe preach that the teachings of the Koran require the execution of gays.