Tag: prospect
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The case for slavery reparations doesn’t add up
06 January 2025. Nigel for Prospect. Demands by Caribbean nations for compensation ignore historical reality and the achievements of British abolitionism. White British involvement in Atlantic slave-trading and slavery for over a century-and-a-half up to the early 1800s amounted to “the Black Holocaust, the British genocide”, according to Sir Hilary Beckles, historian, vice-chancellor of the…
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Vote now: Nigel named one of Prospect’s Top Thinkers 2024
6 December 2023. Every year, Prospect puts together a list of Top Thinkers—a curated list of people who, through their ideas, are making an impact in the world right now—and asks you, the readers of this esteemed magazine, to vote for a winner. This year the Prospect editorial team, together with some of our regular writers and contributors, have…