Non of my quoted historians could be described as "obscure" or "tabloid journalists."
I remind you that you have found not one single living historian of any description who believes what you believe.
That suggests, quite strongly, that you are wrong and I am right.
As usual.

Dr Jane Winters
Reader in Digital Humanities and Head of Publications & IHR (Institute of Historical Research) Digital

Jane has been Head of Publications at the Institute since 1999, and of the new IHR Digital since the autumn of 2010. She is responsible for the IHR's publishing and scholarly communications strategy, including the management of a range of research projects focusing on the provision of digital resources for historians. Currently, she is Co-Director of the JISC-funded Connected Histories project; Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Early English Laws project to digitise Anglo-Saxon legal texts; and Publishing Editor of the Bibliography of British and Irish History. She is also Executive Editor of the IHR's journal, Historical Research.

Jane is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a founder member of the Porta Historica network of editors of historical texts. She is a member of the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee of the Open Library of Humanities.

Revised list.
Saul David, Nigel Jones, Richard Holmes, Peter Hart, David Stephenson,
Fritz Fischer, Dan Todman, Gary Sheffield, Max Hastings, Malcolm Brown,
Stuart Halifax, Catriona Pennel, Margaret MacMillan, William Philpott,
Tristram Hunter, Dan Snow, Ian McMillan, David Renolds, heather Jones,
Jane Winter, Pierre Purseigle,