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Opinion

The Bigger the Lie

BY ALEX STORY “Persecutors are convinced that their violence is justified; they consider themselves judges, and therefore must have guilty victims,” wrote the late French historian René Girard in The Scapegoat (1986). “The more unlikely the accusations,” the more fervently persecutors believe them—and the more total the destruction of the ‘guilty’ becomes. He adds that the “absurdity” of the persecutors’ claims strengthens, rather than weakens, their conviction. Lying, distorting, exaggerating, obfuscating, … Continue reading The Bigger the Lie

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Slavery

Should Britain Pay Reparations for Slavery?

BY EFFIE DEANS The president of Guyana Mohamed Irfaan Ali recently argued that Britain owed his country reparations for slavery. So too an international judge from Jamaica claimed that Britain owed nearly £19 trillion for its involvement in the slave trade. We are constantly reprimanded for the British Empire and urged to decolonise. Yet nobody in Britain living today took part in the Atlantic slave … Continue reading Should Britain Pay Reparations for Slavery?

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africa, Slavery

Deeply Regrettable

BY JOHN NASH At the end of November, the BBC, our nation’s very own 5th column and bastion of national self-hatred, announced with glee that “Jamaica is considering whether to seek compensation from a wealthy Conservative MP for his family’s historical role in slavery” – a role from 400 years ago.   For those who have been hiding incommunicado in a covid bunker for some … Continue reading Deeply Regrettable

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Zero Sum

CSM EDITORIAL The gossip spreading around the internet about China since the Coronavirus outbreak hitting the West should be enough to make the Chinese Communist Party take stock. Some of the chatter associated with the virus has been nonsense – on a par with the 5G rubbish emanating from Ickeians and Gab wingnuts. Increasingly China is seen to have hatched the virus in a lab … Continue reading Zero Sum

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