The British newspaper, the Guardian, is possibly the most tediously woke media organ on the planet. It never found a progressive cause it didn’t like and constantly lectures us ordinary folk on our many failings including our “privilege” and our need for shame and for re-education. The past week, the paper has been unusually quiet on revelations that […]
Given the woke left and Black Life Matters movement’s obsession with the architectural vestiges of the vile slave trade that was abolished in the 1800s in the west, you would imagine that they might be exercised by the existence of modern slavery. It would appear not. Much easier to draw up lists of statues and […]
Following the Black Lives Matter riots in America, People Before Profit want Ireland to raise a memorial in Galway acknowledging Irish people’s historical guilt regarding the slave trade. Is this a case of self-hating political correctness gone mad? Ben Scallan comments. #gript
Following the tearing down of a statue of Edward Colston, an English philanthropist and slave trader, by rioters in Bristol, the BBC has helpfully published a list of other statues of individuals with links to the slave trade. The list is in an article, headlined “London statues with slavery links ‘should be taken down’”, which quotes […]