Inside Reform: it is worse than I feared
Published by The i Paper (8th September, 2025) The tone was set for my entry into the world of Reform UK when I walked in to be confronted by a crowd loudly applauding David Starkey. He is, you may recall, the racist historian who disappeared from public view after claiming that slavery wasn’t genocide because of the survival of “so many damn blacks”. Yet there he was at the first of two appearances at their party conference, pontificating about the welfare state being “the tragedy of the twentieth century” and proclaiming his “absolute indifference” to events in Afghanistan or Gaza.…