2026-11-05
There is much talk these days that the UK should pay reparations to some of its former colonies where fortunes were made on the backs of mistreated slaves.
The whole idea that today's populations should pay for the sins of their forefathers is clearly an absurdity. Imagine trying to claim reparations from the current Mongolia for the slaves taken by the Mongol hordes who overran China, much of Russia, and ultimately reached the eastern provinces of Europe.
Nevertheless it is also accepted history that Barbary Pirates raided the south and west coasts of Britain for the purpose of capturing English slaves (and no doubt other plunder as they might find), so the UK would have as good a claim against the Muslim populations of North Africa as any other group against the English.
It would have to work both ways ...
Tim Sargent should pay attention.
