You cannot threaten people into silence about their own history
A British political party, in a country that ran the most profitable slave trading enterprise in Atlantic history, has proposed punishing African and Caribbean nations for having the temerity to ask for justice.
It takes a specific kind of political imagination, one deeply rooted in the assumption that British comfort matters more than African justice, to arrive at that position and present it as reasonable governance.
Reform UK, the British political party that has been steadily converting English anxiety into electoral victories, has now proposed introducing visa restrictions on nationals of countries that are seeking reparations for the transatlantic slave trade.
