News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
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by Will Jones
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.
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.
In all the mindless clamour to shame Britain into paying eye-watering 'reparations' for slavery, it is forgotten that Britain had to force Africa to give up its slaving ways. Peter Harris tells the untold story.
Slavery and colonialism did not make Britain rich, and may even have made the nation poorer, a new study from the Institute of Economic Affairs has found.
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 historian William Dalrymple pompously suggested Kemi Badenoch should "learn some history" after she denied Britain's economic success was due to white privilege. The historian of empire, Nigel Biggar, begs to differ.
If anything, Britain is owed a debt for its imperial and colonial endeavours, argues Daniel Hannan. "Our species benefited hugely from the industrial revolution, the abolition of the slave trade and the defeat of Nazism."
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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