David Starkey: Disraeli: The Great Conservative

Dear Professor Starkey, with all due respect, comparing a statesman like Disraeli with the monumental failure that is Boris Johnson borders on defamation of character!

Here in the US, the ruling political class has effectively separated the federal Dept of Justice from the President, so it's accountable to no one. The FBI then interfered in the 2016 & 2020 elections (and Watergate, undoing Nixon's '72 landslide), and known blatant law-breakers of the right persuasion have nothing to fear in one-party D.C.

Most of what I knew of Disreali was from Trollope's caricature in the Palliser novels ("probably not temporary insanity"), so this was enlightening.

RIP Professor John Vincent. His book on Disraeli was regarded as the Magnum Opus for some time.

The self-righteous, like present day left, believe that their motives and aims are so morally pure that anything is justified - especially when anyone who disagrees is by definition evil.

Is this available on DVD ? This is bloody brilliant.

Mrs Thatcher's economic ideas were very much in the tradition of Gladtone, as was widely acknowledged at the time. In the 20th century there was much overlap between liberalism and conservatism in response to the rise of Labour. You can see this in the career of Winston Churchill, as I'm sure Dr Starkey knows. I believe that if Gladstone's struggle to achieve Home Rule for Ireland had succeded both countries would have been spared much pain and misery.

If only Starkey would stick to the facts of history, rather than his extreme politic opinions, I would be a huge fan.

Disraeli was indeed a genius and what a character and it indicates that the British weren't racist or prejudiced , nor was Queen Victoria , no wonder Queen Victoria loved and respected Disraeli , he was amusing, brilliant and showed the Queen abject respect and loyalty, whereas Gladstone, although brilliant would have been a sanctimonious bore , she couldn't stand him initially .

Dr. Starkey, could you recommend any biographies of Disraeli, the Great Conservative? Thank you, sir.

Some petty MP? Pretty sure it was Daniel O’Connell who got the “my ancestors vs yours” treatment!

Just connected with this and found it fascinating. As a student I always thought of the old Roundhead/Cavalier saying in relation to Gladstone vs. Disraeli: 'Right but repulsive, wrong but romantic'. Not that Disraeli was 'wrong' - far from it in most instances - but Gladstone was surely 'right' in many of his domestic reforms? Introducing meritocratic entrance exams for the civil service, ending the practice of purchasing of army commissions, widening the provision of free and secular state education, taxing heavy spirits to tackle endemic alcoholism, - weren't all of these Gladstonian reforms with vital long term benefits? High minded, preachy people such as Gladstone are neither colourful nor attractive, but sometimes they are the required antidote to the sleaze that naturally engulfs politics when unchallenged. Cue the present day - don't we desperately need a new Gladstone to roll back the capture of our society by a corrupt, plutocratic 'chumocracy' with enormous power? He / She / They could start by passing a law to prevent senior state regulators moving straight across into hugely overpaid jobs at the head of the industries they purported to regulate (OFWAT and the FCA come straight to mind). So I'd welcome Gladstone-2!

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What are you conserving?

They all thought he was a snake, and I call snake. As Hotspur puts it, 'Tell truth and shame the devil'

Delicious...

Disraeli transformed the Tory party from a party of the aristocracy into a party of the plebeians, led by aristocrats.

D'israeli son of an Italian JEW , Tory Party broke Constitutional Law Permitting Him to become an MP, in those Days Only People Born into the Anglican Faith were permitted to stand for Parliament,, Kings Oath William of Orange 1688/89 Banned Foreigners from setting foot on UK SOIL, Then Act of Settlement 1700 softened it , Foreigners permitted to settle , BUT NEVER PERMITTED TO STAND FOR PUBLIC CIVIL OFFICE'S OF TRUST , AoS 1700 states Any Person wishing to be of The Privy Council or Member of Either House in Westminster or Any Civil Public Office of Trust,, Must be Born of British Born Parents with an Ancestral Line of British Born Parents & Grandparents.

Disraeli was another of histories Stockholm Syndrome sufferers. A gay man who adopted the ways of his oppressor so completely he is considered a fine person and his gayness hidden from view.

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How can Disraeli and Johnson be similar when one was a Conservative and the other isn’t anywhere near being so.

Can anyone tell me if , the quote , There are 3 types of lies , lies , Damned lies, and statistics, was this said by Benjamin Disrali, or Mark Twain , both seem to have uttered this , a generation older Disrali , and Twain both lived for about 76 years, i think using Occam's Razor as a rule of thumb , it's most likely Twain / Clemens , Paraphrased Disrali , some time later they would have known of each other , if not met , can anyone give a definitive answer, thankyou , so stats stat i guess . Ric

If you hate the Tories for being controlled opposition and betraying your nation, know this: Disraeli was the one who poisoned them with liberalism.

"You don't even know who I am."

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He is a dark skinned Jew he is a black man just like the messiah
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Starkey has NO understanding of the Scientific and Technological demands of the modern World. There are too many people like him, and Clssicists in positions of power in this Country.

Dear Mr. Starkey, I could not agree more with your descritption on conservativism and it's ever evolving course of self renewance! Thank you so much for amplifying and strengthen my views on the matter. best regards! X.H.

Another extremely enlightening lecture.

Paradoxically speaking, if the UK had a more robust system of checks and balances like the United States, separation of powers included, Blair would have never been able to abolish a position like Lord Chancellor. Because we in the US separate the executive and legislative branches more, and because we have an upper house that is still on equal footing to the lower house, and because we have a written constitution with a very high bar to amend, the ability of a Blair like figure to do much real long term damage constitutionally is next to zero.

Frankly, long term the British constitution is doomed precisely because its historical nature as a nebulous/abstract concept, means you always one election away from a radical rewriting of your system and the minute the Lords or the King were to intervene as a "check", those institutions will have signed their death warrants.

Also it should be noted that even in the United States, our Vice President is also President of the Senate. If the electoral college is a tie, the House elects the President by state delegation and the Senate elects the Vice President by majority vote. The Chief Justice presides over impeachment trials in the Senate. Just because an institutions crosses over the boundary, does not by itself mean that it violates the separation of powers, in fact such boundary crossing is essential for the separation of powers to function as part of a system of checks and balances.

Interesting that there is no mention of Gladstone's influence upon the lodestar of the modern Conservative Party - Margaret Thatcher. She bragged in the 1980s that if Gladstone had still been alive, he would have joined her Conservative Party.

DISRAELI A SEMITE OR PERSON WHO CLAIMES TO BE DESCENDED FROM NOAHS ARC FAMILY WHO KEPT TWO OF EVERY KIND OF ANIMAL FROM DEATH IN A GREAT FLOOD WAS NO DOUBT A FREEMASONIC MEMBER OF UK LORD PALMERSTONS ZOO BEAST VENETIAN PARTY WHO MIGRATED NORTH INTO EUROPE DURING CRUSADES AND FOUNDED INTERNATIONAL BANKING CARTELS THIS WAS ASSISTED IN 1885 BY QUEEN VICTORIA ELEVATING NATHAN DE ROTHSCHILD TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS AT THE SAME TIME THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF ROYALISTS BACKED ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST PRIME MINISTER DISRAELI THESE ARE UK LORD PALMERSTONS ZOO BEAST DISCUSSED BY WEBSTER TARPLY AS "VENETIAN BLACK NOBILITY" BY HISTORIANS SUPPORTING USA JAILED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LINDON LA ROUCHE.
SO LIBERAL PARTY OF SCOTSMAN LIVING IN LONDON PRIME MINISTER GLADSTONS LIBERALISM IS SUPERIOR TO THESE POLICIES OF DISREALI A ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST NAZI CORPORATE FACIST AGENTS WHO IM TRYING TO DOCUMENT TYPICALY START WARS BY ACTS OF FALSE FLAG TERROR AND PROFIT FROM BACKING BOTH SIDES IN THEM, WHICH IS HARD FOR A NORMAL HUMAN BEING TO WRAP THEIR HEADS AROUND THE NUCLEAR POWERED BABYLONIAN BANKERS HEBREW PHONETIAN VENETIAN SLAVERS NIHILISTIC ETHICS OF ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS NAZI ZIONISM.

USA TAXPAYERS AND AUKUS NATIONS CITIZEN TAXPAYERS HAVE TO PAY BACKTHAT 95 BILLION USA PARLIAMENT JUST PASSED IN AID TO UKRIAN ISRAEL AND TAIWAN THIS IS A RACKE THIS MONEY GOES BACK TO ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST PRIVATE RESERVE BANKING CARTELS TO BRIBE OUT POLITICAL ELITES TO VOTE FOR ISREALI INTEREREST I LEFT AND RIGHT OF POLITICS.

UK LORD PALMERSTONS ZOO BEAST VENETIAN PARTY CREATED BNAI BRITH YOUNG ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST FREEMASONIC LODGES IN 1843 AND VIA BACKING BOTH SIDES IN WARS ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS BANKING CARTELS NOW RULE EARTH WITH THE HELP OF UK ROYALTY WHO STILL SUPPORT NAZI FATHERED WEF KLAUS SCHWABB.

AUSTRALIA IS VERY DEPENDENT ON TRADE WITH CHINA SO AUSTRALIA SHOULD JOIN BRICS AND DROP ROTHSCHILDS SWIFT USA PETRODOLLAR INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY EXCHANGE SYSTEMS WHICH CHARGE 25 DOLLARS PER INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER BRICS CAN DO IT CHEAPER.

USA PARLIAMENT APPROVED ANOTHER SWIFT BANKING CARTEL LOAN OF 95 BILLION IN AID TO UKRIAN AND ISRAELI NAZI POST WW2 ROTHSCHILDS ZIONISTS AND THIS IS BANKRUPTING THE USA AND ITS COMMONWEALTH ALLIED NATIONS.

IN 1885 QUEEN VICTORIA ELEVATED NATHAN DE ROTHSCHILD TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS WHILST ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST VENETIAN PARTY AGENT OF LORD PALMERSTONS ZOO DISRAELI ,A SEMITE PRETENDING TO BE ANGLICAN CHRISTIAN, WAS PRIME MINISTER THESE ARE UK LORD PALMERSTONS ZOO BEAST FREEMASONIC LODGES CRATED 1843 LIKE BNAI BRITH YOUNG ISRAEL WHO VIA UK LORD BALFOUR DECLARATION TO LORD ROTHSCHILD CREATED ASKA-NAZI YIDDISH GERMAN POLISH SLAVIC COMMUNISTIC AND CORPORATE FASCIST BASICALY NA-ZI SETTLENTS IN PALESTINE 1917 WHICH HAVE GONE ON TO BANKRUPT THE SECULAR WESTERN STYLE DEMOCRATIC WORLD VIA ISRAELI LOBBY GROUPS WHO CONTROL BOTH SIDES OF PARLIAMENT LEFT AND RIGHT.

USA SENATOR CYNTHIA MCKINNEY EXPOSED THIS ISRAELI LOBBY AFFECTS ALL WESTERN SYTLE DEMOCRACY.
USA IS VOTING TO SEND ANOTHER 95 BILLION TO WASTE IN UKRIAN WAR AGAINST RUSSIA HOW MANY 100S OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS DO USA TAXPAYERS WASTE ON ISRAEL WAR ON PALESTINE SYRIA LEBANON AND IRAN/IRAQ PERSIA WHILST USA AND ITS ALLIES IN AUKUS COMMONWEALTH CIVIL SOCIETY FALLS APART.

MURDOCH SKY FOX NEWS AND CNN IS ISRAEI ROTHSCHILDS NAZI/ZIONIST PROPAGANDA AS IS NEW YORK TIMES.THEY ARE ALL1843 CREATED UK LORD PALMERSTONS ZOO BEAST VENETIAN PARTY BLACK NOBILITY FREEMASONIC LODGES WHO MOVED NORTH INTO EUROPE FROM VENICE DURING SCANDENAVIAN EX VIKING FRENCH/NORMAN CRUSADES TO JERUSALEM THESE TEMPLAR LODGES STILL EXIST AND ARE BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI JESUIT CONTROLED FREEMASONIC NAZI COLLABORATORS OF WW2 ZIONIST LODGES LIKE BNAI BRITH YOUNG ISRAEL, YOUNG TURKS, YOUNG AMERICAN KU KLUX KLAN & MORE RECENT WEF YOUNG GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ARE POST WW2 NAZI ZIONISTS WHOS SYMBOLS ARE AT DENVER AIRPORT.

CERN IS AN EMP DEW AND IS CONTINUING WW2 NAZI BELL PROJECT PROBABLY INTENDING TO SHIFT NORTH POLAR AXIS AROUND 30 KILOMETERS A YEAR TO UPSET WEATHER OR ALTER EARTHS MAGNETASPHERE IN SOME WAY.

AI IS OFTEN JUST A BUNCH OF INDIANS PRETENDING TO BE ARTIFICAL INELLIGENCE THAT IS ALSO USED TO KILL PALESTINIANS IN GAZA STRIP. AND AMAZON AI 'JUST WALK OUT" IS AN EXAMPLE OF NAZI/INDIAN AUTOMATON AI..

GOTTHARD BASE TUNNEL OPENING CEREMONY LOOKS LIKE HEBREW 1933 GERMAN NATIONALIST HITLERS GROUPS AND ROTHSCHILDS NATIONALIST-ZIONIS=NAZI ALLIED GOVT , NAZI DENVER AIRPORT END TIMES ZIONIST OCCULT.


AND OTHER NAZIES HAVE A BLAVATSY THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST BACKED SO DISTORED BY NAZI TIBETAN BUDDHIST ANTI DARWINIST NAZI ARYAN ZIONISTS ROOT RACE THEORY THAT IS DEFINITLY EVIDENT IN UKRIAN ASOV BRIGADE "RIECH OF THE BLACK SUN" "WOLFANGEL" AND "SWASTIKA" SYMBOL USING NEO NAZI WHITE SUPREMACIST SEMITE OCCULT BACKED BY SPLINTER GROUPS FROM THEOSOPHY IN USA LIKE ANNIE BASANT AND STIENER , VENETIAN PRINTING PRESSES OF JESUITS PRINTED LUTHERS PROTESTANT BOOKS BUT ALSO INSPIRED ANNABAPTISTS SIEGE AT MUNSTER GERMANY THESE SAME BAPISTS KU KLUX KLAN SKULL AND BONES ARE CONFEDEREATE SLAVERS AND NAZI COLLABORATING FAMILIES OF WW2.

THESE NAZI OCCULT THEORY OF ROOT RACES USES ROSECRUTION SYMBOL THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ISRAELI FLAG NAZI DOUBLE TRIANGLE SYMBOL WITHIN AN ORB WITH A CHRISTIAN CROSS ABOVE IT.

"THE VIDEO THAT LED TO THE ARREST OF BRENDON OCONNELL BY AUSTRALIAN ZOG" SAYS IT ALL ,ISRAELI ZIONISTS HAVE TAKEN OVER AUSTRALAI AND JAILED OCONNELL FOR SPEAKING OUT.

THE CURE FOR WHAT RICHARD DAWKINS CALLED "THE GOD DELUSION" IS DARWINISM

ISRAEL WILL VIA TRUMPS "SPACE FORCE" WEAPONISE SPACE AND USA MAY BECOME A VICTUM OF ISRAELI EMP DEW POWERED BY NUKES WHICH WILL TAKE DOWN USA VIA EMP DEW DESTROYING USA POWER GRIDS (SEE DENIS QUAID, GRID DOWN MOVIE) AND POWER GRIDS IN AUSTRALIA CANADA AND UK COMMONWEALTH NATIONS ARE THREATENED BY ISREALI NUCLEAR POWERED EMP DEW ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS IN SPACE

I AM CONVINCED THAT NAZI/ISRAEL AND PAPERCLIP & TALPIOT PROGRAM DID 911 WITH EMP DEW SEE DR JUDY WOODS 'WHERE DID THE TOWERS GO"

I SUSPECT PINE GAP OR ISRAELI FLAG SHAPED TESLA TECH AT EXMOUTH HAARP CAN ALSO CAUSE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND EARTHQUAKES THAT CAUSE TSUNAMI AT WILL AND THIS WAS BEHIND 1992 ACHE TSUNAMI INDONESIA TO BRING IN ISLAMIST SHARIA LAW AND CHUMBUK WHIPPING FOR CANABIS USE WHICH MUSLIMS ARE NAMED AFTER BECAUSE OF THEIR MAUSLIM HEMP/CANABIS TEXTILE CLOTHING. SO AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED MUSLIMS AND HINDU BUDDHISTS AND WESTER RA ASTA SUN STAR BEINGS ALL CAN GET ALONG FINE IN SECURITY TRADE AND DEFENCE ALLIENCES BETER THAN WESTERN NATIONS DO WITH ISRAELI ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST BANKING CARTELS AGENTS OF DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY CHINESE OPIUM WARLORDS IF WE USE NOW LEGAL MEDICAL CANNABIS FOR THE PTSD ALL THIS ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST NAZI INSURGENCY HAS GIVEN US.

ITS A GIVEN THAT IN 2011 FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER WAS ALSO CAUSED BY SIMILAR EMP DEW CAUSED TSUNAMI OR BY AN ILLEGALLY MADE ISRAELI NUKE EMBEDED IN THE SEA FLOOR OFF JAPAN.

I AM SURROGATE GRANDSON OF WW2 ANZAC ROYAL ENGINEER GENERAL SIR CLIVE STEEL I HAVE NO OFFICIAL POSSITION BUT AFTER I WAS TOLD IN 2015 BY BALI INTERPOL POLICE THAT NAZIES RUN INTERPOL

MICHEAL SHRATT TALKS ABOUT THIS IN "THIS IS THE CLASSIFIED SPACE PROGRAM" THAT NAZI ZIONIST DEEP STATE ALSO DOES UFO HOAX FALSE FLAG TERROR EVENTS SUCH AS WESTALL UFO EVENT MELBOURNE 1968 FIVE YEARS AFTER JFK ASSASINATION..

ZIONISM IS THE PROBLEM THAT LED TO AUSTRALIA CHRISTIAN ZIONIST PM SCOTT MORRISON LEASING OUT DARWIN HARBOUR TO COMMUNISTS.

USA SENATOR CYNTHIA MCKINNEY EXPOSED THIS ISRAELI LOBBY AFFECTS ALL WESTERN SYTLE DEMOCRACY. T.

"THE VIDEO THAT LED TO THE ARREST OF BRENDON OCONNELL BY AUSTRALIAN ZOG" SAYS IT ALL ,ISRAELI ZIONISTS HAVE TAKEN OVER AUSTRALAI AND JAILED OCONNELL FOR SPEAKING OUT.
I THINK BYZANTINE GREEK RUSSIAN UKRIANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH HAS A USA BACKED ZIONIST SHISM WITH THE PRESENCE OF YIDDISH LANGUAGE BRANCHS RUSSIAN GREEK LANGUAGE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF BYZANTIUM.

THE CURE FOR WHAT RICHARD DAWKINS CALLED 'GODS CHOSEN PEOPLES" WHITE SUPREMACIST AYRAN RACE OF EUROPEAN SEMITECEEDS THIS PROBLEM OF THE MESSIANIC CREEDS "THE GOD DELUSION" IS CURED BY DARWINISM CORE VALUES OF SOLDIER SETTLER FERRAL FARMER ANZAC PROGENY FROM BOAR WAR WW1 AND WW2 THAT VIA SELECTIVE BREEDING OF LIVESTOCK THEY MAKE THEIR LIVING FROM.

ISRAEL WILL VIA TRUMPS "SPACE FORCE" WEAPONISE SPACE AND USA MAY BECOME A VICTUM OF ISRAELI EMP DEW POWERED BY NUKES WHICH WILL TAKE DOWN USA VIA EMP DEW DESTROYING USA POWER GRIDS (SEE DENIS QUAID, GRID DOWN MOVIE) . I AM CONVINCED THAT NAZI/ISRAEL AND PAPERCLIP & TALPIOT PROGRAM DID 911 WITH EMP DEW SEE DR JUDY WOODS 'WHERE DID THE TOWERS GO" AND ENRON CALIFORNIA POWER OUTAGES WERE CAUSED BY ISRAEL I SUSPECT BECAUSE ENRON WAS BEING INVESTIGATED IN TWIN TOWERS BUILDINGS BUT THAT INVESTIGATION WAS ENDED 2001 911, BUSH SKULL AND BONES DID THAT AND JFK ASSASINATION

I AM SURROGATE GRANDSON OF WW2 ANZAC ROYAL ENGINEER GENERAL SIR CLIVE STEEL I HAVE NO OFFICIAL POSSITION BUT AFTER I WAS TOLD IN 2015 BY BALI INTERPOL POLICE THAT NAZIES RUN INTERPOL
MICHEAL SHRATT TALKS ABOUT THIS IN "THIS IS THE CLASSIFIED SPACE PROGRAM" THAT NAZI ZIONIST DEEP STATE ALSO DOES UFO HOAX FALSE FLAG TERROR EVENTS SUCH AS WESTALL UFO EVENT MELBOURNE 1968 FIVE YEARS AFTER JFK ASSASINATION..

ZIONISM IS THE PROBLEM THAT LED TO AUSTRALIA CHRISTIAN ZIONIST PM SCOTT MORRISON LEASING OUT DARWIN HARBOUR TO COMMUNISTS.

Disraeli was an insecure sycophant, but Gladstone was just pure evil.

With a single letter, was able to influence government with advice about how to "get around" the inconvenience of abolition to the "Planter Class".

Create Indentured Servitude. I see no great virtue in either man.

Do you have a book recommendation on Disraeli?

Indeed, Disraeli was an outstanding political leader and he deserves all our admiration. Thank you very much for this remarkable analysis.

Yes Disraeli was great, but Gladstone was even better. Churchill was amazing... ......but let's be honest, in comparison, Starkey is just a piece of utterly mindless crap ! A man who does not believe in the future of the UK, and unbelievably, has learned NOTHING FROM HISTORY!!

'Naked peasants wearing furs' - something of an oxymoron/ contradiction there...

A word of caution regarding some of these judgements on Gladstone re his being some sort of midwife to the Labour Party: Gladstone was extremely chary of public expenditure on almost anything, as he believed that money should be 'left to fructify in the pockets of the people'; so he deplored higher taxation. He also showed very little enthusiasm for government intervention on social reform, which he found distasteful both due to its expense and also because it was not consistent with Liberalism as allowing a freedom of choice. The New Liberalism under Lloyd George, even with Churchill and LG under Asquith, was well called as it differentiated it from Gladstonian Liberalism, which was essentially laissez-faire. Gladstone was interested in institutional reform to increase efficiency and moral justice. He wasn't a precursor of Labour at all, and it is quite wrong to see him as such.

To call Gladstone a liberal is an absolute joke. Where do these historians get off with their anachronisms? By every measure, if you were to question Gladstone on what he thought of diversity, mass immigration, white privilege, abortion, homosexuality/transsexuality he would rebuke you and be insulted for even asking him these questions.

These are statesmen who lived in very different ages where imperial policy reigned supreme when monarchs influenced and headed governments negotiating deals and vetoing policies and legislation. You are dealing with a European Christian hegemony. Gladstone would never be gunhoe about bestowing upon England the boon of Islam.

Absurd. And regarding his dismissal of intervention into Bulgaria Starkey fails to mention that these are imperial and colonial times. It's not equivalent to modern liberal intervention. And he seems to be downplaying the mass murdering ways of the Ottoman Turks who exterminated Greeks, Armenians and Slavs for over 400 years.

This was the era of the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch empires where intervention was a matter of business and imperial policy. And finally to compare Gladstone to Keir Starmer is so obtuse. A socialist rainbow flag lover of mass migration to a man who wouldn't let his child wed a person of colour, these are the types of men being compared.

The main flaw with these established historians is to apply "Left/Right" or "Liberal/Conservative" binaries to distinct eras that have profoundly different moral, cultural, social, ideological and economic realities that even suggest these convenient political classifications timelessly reconcile them is an enormous mistake.

This is exactly what is wrong with modern conservatives—even ones like Starkey who I respect.

I don't think Disraeli ever said the "priests in the temple of Solomon" line. Certainly not in Parliament

What about the wars in Afghanistan and South Africa? Another war in the Middle East that Britain got involved in - and with disastrous results - which ultimately cost Disraeli his premiership. Gladstone did give us our civil service system(before Blair mucked that up) and was right about Irish Home Rule(although I think that should of really have been passed under Peel's tenure) - ultimately that resulted in so much bloodshed in Ireland and the UK.

My father in Law was Christened after the death of William Ewart Gladstone and my husband was Called Ewart

Slight correction: Disraeli's father and mother never converted out of Judaism. They remained Jews though they stopped attending services at the Bevis Marks synagogue. Isaac Disraeli wrote "The Genius of Judaism" the year that Benjamin wrote "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy" (a semi-historical tale about an attempt to restore the Jews to their homeland). When Benjamin was twelve, his father's friend Sharon Turner took him and his sister to be baptized at an Anglican church with their father and mother's permission. Eventually, all four Disraeli siblings became Anglicans but the parents did not convert and both Benjamin and his father were fascinated by Jewish history and identity.

This chitchat aged badly 😅

Disraeli dragged us into the first world war by forcing us to underwrite the debt of the ottoman bank with the blood of our sons and the wealth of our nation.

His subversion of British culture and tradition opened the doors to snakes who sold our sovereignty to the international banks. He is the progenitor of our worship of GDP, he is the politician who, through no personal sacrifice, took control of an Empire and allowed his banker friends to strip her of all assets.

His position in parliament and his subsequent posthumous deification were a monumentous slap to the face of every British aristocrat who risked life and limb to secure and expand the rule of law that underpins the British empire.

The Ottoman empire was a power with no industry, a power that relied on the archaic, old testament tyranny whereby people's were controlled through population transfer and state sanctioned massacre. A power whose tax revenue was derived from tax farming and slavery, where being Muslim granted you the whip hand over all others.

Disraeli's betrayal of Britain and the Christians in the Balkans handed Eastern Europe to the Russian administration (not the Russian crown). We should have followed Gladstone's advice, a genuine aristocrat from a noble family, interested in preserving law and culture.

Disraeli was neither conservative nor a hero, he destroyed the British Empire

Imagine how much better the world would have been without him 😂. He swindled an old lady and a country, an experienced huckster of sorts.

Certainly paved the way for Rothschild and then Israel itself.