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  Yes I too saw Starkey on Newsnight. Sadly it was almost impossible to hear his theory because everytime he opened his gob two ready made talking heads of the nondescript variety feigned horror and continually interrupted.
  
  One of the points he was trying to make is that a whole 'lost' generation of white youngsters in the inner cities are adopting black culture, posing as their black opposites, shunning their own heritage in the process
  ... and both sets of youths, black and white, talk in this weird language that nobody older, of either race understands.
  
  They talk a street unintelligible gobbledook ..known or understood only by each other. Starkey pulled a note from his pocket and read out a passage of this kind of dialect talking...finishing with "innit!". I think most of us know the style of talking referred to.
  
  I think the point he was trying to make is that they are alienating themselves. Nobody would give them a job talking in this fashion..innit! And it is a fashion. This according to Starkey.
  
  He was very frustrated in the programme because he couldnt get his point across. It is a least a theory as to why we are in this state. Its cool to riot, its cool not to have a job, its cool to talk in this slang way...so there we are.

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