Will Hutton, the well-known political commentator and former Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, has gone into print in The Guardian to attack Kemi Badenoch’s recent speech in which she rightly criticised the simplistic view that British commercial wealth and industrialisation depended on slavery and colonialism. Hutton also lays into a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs by Kristian Niemietz entitled
Empire, the slave trade, and Britain’s wealth
Empire, the slave trade, and Britain’s wealth
Empire, the slave trade, and Britain’s wealth
Will Hutton, the well-known political commentator and former Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, has gone into print in The Guardian to attack Kemi Badenoch’s recent speech in which she rightly criticised the simplistic view that British commercial wealth and industrialisation depended on slavery and colonialism. Hutton also lays into a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs by Kristian Niemietz entitled