Mark Steyn Has the Last Laugh
9 March 2025
by Tilak Doshi
Declined: Chapter 11: Robert’s
8 March 2025
Degree courses focused on the "undertakings of white people" have made universities racist, according to a review by a Russell Group university that has pledged to make reparations in response.
Hugh Grant and 70 other "leading cultural figures" have written an open letter protesting the Guardian's plan to sell the Observer to loss-making start-up Tortoise Media. Charlotte Gill looks at what the fuss is about.
Keir Starmer is preparing to give ground on slavery reparations as he attends a Commonwealth summit amid demands from Commonwealth nations for payments of up to £18 trillion.
Commonwealth leaders are set to elect a new head of the organisation who favours demanding that Britain be made to pay slavery and climate reparations.
The clamour for slavery reparations isn't going away. But is it just an excuse for Caribbean countries to demand piles of U.K. taxpayer money? Olga Gillies attended the recent debate in the House of Lords and reports back.
All three candidates running to succeed Baroness Scotland as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth have backed the idea of making amends for slavery and colonialism.
The Church of England has committed to paying £1bn in slavery reparations. But the case for doing so is historical nonsense, say Robert Tombs and Lawrence Goldman. The Church never made any money from the slave trade.
The Church of England announced £100m in reparations for profiting from the slave trade. But now a historian has shown this is a mistake: the church never profited from slavery. Will the woke ever get their history right?
The constant calls for Britain to apologise for slavery miss one hugely important fact: that Britain was almost single-handedly responsible for abolishing the abhorrent trade, at immense cost to itself.
The billion-pound slavery atonement proposed by the Church of England is slammed by Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph, as yet another instance of British national self-loathing and Americanised symbolic virtue-signalling.
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