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David Starkey Proves He Is 'Katie Hopkins With A PHD'

5 Times Starkey Proved He Was 'Katie Hopkins With A PHD'
The Huffington Post UK
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Dr David Starkey makes a speech during the Brighton College National Education Conference in Brighton, East Sussex.
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David Starkey's appearance on Question Time this week stunned many as the historian subjected the audience in Lincoln to his views on why teenagers can "groom" their teachers.

At the same time, Starkey managed to call fellow panelist Mehdi Hasan "Ahmed" while trying to prove he was an expert on Islam.

Hasan, political director of the Huffington Post UK, later mocked Starkey as "Katie Hopkins with a PHD". Like the "Apprentice" star, Starkey has not been afraid to stir controversy with his outspoken views. Here are five times that he seemed eerily similar to the dame of provocative pronouncements..

David Starkey's Most Katie Hopkins Moments
The time Starkey said rape required violence(01 of05)
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Speaking on Question Time last February, Starkey claimed the law was "working very badly", blaming the "complicated" concept of consent, and "encouraging false accusations"."I think we've got ourselves into a hopeless confusion on the whole question of rape", he began, saying its original Latin definition referred to violence.
The time Starkey blamed riots on white people becoming 'black'(02 of05)
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Starkey caused a maelstrom of controversy in the wake of the London riots after claiming in a discussion that "the problem is that the whites have become black" and that Enoch Powell was right. Speaking on Newsnight in 2011, Starkey spoke of "a profound cultural change" and said he had been re-reading Powell's controversial"Rrivers of Blood" speech."His prophesy was absolutely right in one sense. The Tiber did not foam with blood but flames lambent, they wrapped around Tottenham and wrapped around Clapham," he said."But it wasn't inter-community violence. This is where he was absolutely wrong." Pointing to one of the other guests, Owen Jones, who wrote Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Classes, Starkey said: "What has happened is that a substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black."
The time Starkey compared Alex Salmond to Adolf Hitler (03 of05)
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Starkey caused outrage in 2012 after comparing then Scottish first minister Alex Salmond to Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler."If you think about it, Alex Salmond is a democratic Caledonian Hitler, although some would say Hitler was more democratically elected," he told an audience."[For him] the English, like the Jews, are everywhere" he added.
THe time Starkey mocked women for "feminising" history (04 of05)
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In 2009, Starkey mocked female authors for the "feminisation" of history, accusing them of a "bizarre" obsesson with Henry VII's wives just to boost sales.
The time Starkey said Princess Anne looked like a horse(05 of05)
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Starkey once again found himself at the centre of controversy after he called Princess Anne horse-like following her suggestion that dropping our aversion to consuming horse meat could improve equine care."I never thought that Princess Anne who is much given to riding around on horses, looks rather like one generally… as a satirist," he said on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions in 2013.

See also:

David Starkey Calls Mehdi Hasan 'Ahmed' During BBC Question Time

David Starkey Says Teenagers Can 'Groom' Their Teachers During Question Time

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