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.
The first museum to display the Benin bronzes in 1897 became the first to 'give them back' in 2022. But the truth is these 'returned' historical artefacts are vanishing into the ether.
Have black Americans really inherited 'weak genes' from their enslaved ancestors? That might sound like racist pseudoscience, but, bizarrely, it's a central claim in the current clamour for reparations in the U.S.
Green billionaire funders are mobilising their forces to promote the idea that climate 'reparations' must be paid by the countries that were first to industrialise ahead of today's opening of COP28 in the UAE.
Scotland's crisis-hit NHS is to begin a "programme of reparations" to Jamaica and Africa – paid for out of existing healthcare budgets – in a bid to "make amends" for slavery links dating from the 18th century.
Parents in Oakland are struggling to feel much sympathy for striking teachers. They're not striking for better pay and conditions, but to advance the causes of reparations and environmental justice.
America is facing an unusual problem – it's running out of oppressors. That is creating a difficulty for grievance-mongering grifters, reports Tony Morrison, because there are fewer and fewer people to extort money from.
The President of Nigeria has transferred the Benin bronzes to the King of Benin as his personal property, despite him being heir to those who made them from the money which bought their slaves and a complete lack of standards.
In London Calling this week, we discuss the Guardian devoting 0.1% of its net worth to atone for its slave trade links and its attempt to deflect attention from the scandal by accusing the Royal Family of the same sin.
