Some thoughts on Blood Legacy - Reckoning With A Family’s History of Slavery, by Alex Renton: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2024/04/blood-…

It may or may not be difficult for Barbados' goverment to confiscate this land which the #Drax family have enriched themselves from, but said family ought to do the right thing, as others are doing, & consider putting this £3mil into a #Reparations pot.
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This is right-winger Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax MP. He also owns Charcombe Park and 15,000 acres in Dorset, largely derived from his ancestors' slavery-funded wealth. One of its features is called Sugar Hill. #reparations Heirs of Slavery plashmar

Twenty, four, 2024 - any cults out there with an Armageddon tip for today?

At-risk children farmed out to illegal private care homes.
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What a lot of humourless hatey stuff UnHerd has now. It was once an entertaining window on what the thinking right was up to. Now just bile and hopelessness. Sub cancelled.

At the Cruzcampo beer research centre, Sevilla, looking at different grains and techniques. Fun, but we needed Sir Geoff Palmer.

The contradictions of American policy in one photo.

Foreign Press Association presses again for immediate access to Gaza raising “questions about what Israel does not want international journalists to see”. The US administration has also pressed Netanyahu directly on the issue, still no change.

Beatings, humiliation and a loss of self-worth: how Edinburgh Academy victims were scarred - the background story of the John Brownlee case by ⁦Severin Carrell⁩ ⁦Libby Brooks⁩ theguardian.com/education/2024…