Videos show Laurie Penny and 'dinosaur' Starkey in full rant

'I will not be lectured to by you' says TV historian, jabbing his finger at the radical blogger

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(Image credit: Laurie Penny v David Starkey)

MORE details have emerged of the heavyweight clash of the commentariat this weekend between radical blogger and journalist Laurie Penny and the outspoken TV historian David Starkey at the Sunday Times Festival of Education.

The newspaper released video clips today of the contretemps, which occurred after the historian had talked about the values of the Asian men from Rochdale who were convicted of grooming young white girls for sex as being "entrenched in the foothills of the Punjab or wherever it is", and how the men needed to be "inculcated in the British ways of doing things".

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