On the @ReasonedUK interview I conducted with Dr David Starkey:

I’ve been asked to clarify why I described Dr Starkey as a ‘hero’, well:

It was an interview that was over an hour. My hero comment was more a reflection on how much I’d appreciated his history programmes growing up, which did a lot for me as a kid in a really crap state school with precious little in the way of history.

The much more detailed and nuanced discussion on current events that I’d had, during a conversation that lasted over an hour, is not well reflected in that one, damning and distressing clip, that has been shared online – I regret missing that part and it has now been removed.

The BBC have reported that Reasoned is a channel for racists, homophobes and transphobes. Not true:

Believe Black Lives Matter is a Marxist outfit? You’re racist.

Believe in biological sex? Activists say you’re transphobic.

Believe in a pride day over a month? You’re anti-gay.

Those things still ring true. I reject in the strongest possible terms what Dr Starkey said in that clip and so very wish I’d caught it at the time. I am still learning the ropes, I will be much more alert to challenging this kind of thing in future. Thank you for the emails.