This isn't fair I don't think. In my reading @Leon's objection is to the lack of context. The Atlantic slave trade is no less repulsive if compared to other slave trades, but if this i… (View Post)

@Cookie. Genuine question - why does this bother you? I'm asking the question because I'm a teacher in a school which has some similar messaging. I personally don't have a problem with… (View Post)

You are decidely generous about the global importance of the things that go on in our funny little island! (View Post)

Apologies if I've missed someone else making this observation. I very much mis-read your first sentence @turbotubbs. A whole different world of side-effects. (View Post)

@MaxPB I find the last sentence of this a worryingly naive perspective. And when argued from a position of relative privilege and with such unwavering confidence it is symptomatic, I think, of a narr… (View Post)