Slavery and Reparations

‘We have paid the price in the blood of our ancestors’: Britain faces new UN push for slavery reparations worth trillions from African and Caribbean nations

Britain and other former colonial powers face a fresh demand from African and Caribbean states to atone and make reparations for the historic slave trade that could cost taxpayers trillions of pounds.

The president of Ghana used a speech at the United Nations in New York today to attack the ‘deafening silence’ from European states ‘enriched’ by the abduction and forced labour of more than 12 million Africans over four centuries.

John Dramani Mahama lashed out before he presents a new resolution, backed by the African Union and Caribbean states, seeking formal recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as a ‘grave crime against humanity’.

What about the wrongs of black people that were slavers and sold other blacks to Arab Muslims and Europeans? Arab and Black Muslims that enslaved whites decades after slavery was outlawed in western countries? pic.twitter.com/FYV2XyG1O5

— j newnam (@jnewnam2) March 22, 2026

Funding from a group founded by George Soros has supported the slavery reparations campaign against Britain, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Open Society Foundations (OSF), established by Hungarian investor Mr Soros and now led by his son, Alex Soros, has donated vast sums from its $23bn (£17.2bn) endowment to progressive causes.

The foundation has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups seeking to claim reparations from Britain for slavery and colonialism.

Ideological obsession with the transatlantic slave trade prevents insight into the Arab-Muslim slave trade.

Nazism and Bolshevism—the ideological world scourges of the twentieth century, threatening the complete destruction of Europe—may be buried as historical phenomena. However, the world does not stand still. And the enemies of the “open society,” as described by Karl Raimund Popper, never rest for long; they are always on the move, plotting and calculating. Some of them are skilled at ingratiating themselves and pose as humanists, pretentiously speaking on behalf of the “victims” of the world, but they are impostors, to be sure—and totalitarians at heart. Whatever the rhetoric, their ultimate goal is invariably to overthrow the West.

AS THE row over the Church of England’s push to pay out £100million in slavery reparations flared up at last week’s General Synod, leftist members tried to suppress dissent by branding opponents a risk to the wellbeing of black people.

The Church Commissioners, the body which manages the C of E’s £11billion investments, is having to set up a separate charity for the reparations scheme, named Project Spire, and then get permission from the Charity Commission to pay in the £100million for disbursal to beneficiaries in the Caribbean.

San Francisco is ringing in the New Year by pushing for reparations for the city’s black residents, to the tune of $5 million per person.

How will they pay for it? Well, the ordinance creates a fund of both private and public monies to cover the payments. Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the ordinance into law on December 23. The bill was unanimously passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in early December.

The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury has been urged to scrap plans to spend £100m over the Church of England’s historical links to slavery.

In a letter seen by the Sunday Times, a group of Conservative MPs and peers has urged Dame Sarah Mullally to stop the Church from spending the money.

They claim the funds can only legally be spent on churches and the payment of clergy wages.

In a statement, the Church Commissioners said that arrangements for the fund were being “developed transparently – in line with charity law”.

Detailing “historical atrocities,” a years-long reparations study in Detroit has a lengthy list of expensive recommendations but doesn’t put a final price tag on how much it would cost.

The Detroit Reparations Task Force produced a 558 page report with programs to compensate residents who are descendants of slaves and those affected by “unjust” city policies. The report comes a full year after it was originally due after a series of missed deadlines.

Given Lenny Henry wants the British state to pay £18tn in slavery reparations, perhaps we should be thankful that the Church of England wants to cough up “only” £100m as part of its Project Spire, the Church Commissioners’ proposal to invest in “communities affected by historic transatlantic chattel slavery”.

Not only does the Church want to spend this money, but a parliamentary response to a question asked by the Conservative MP Neil O’Brien this week highlighted how its leaders are jumping through a series of legal hoops to do so, including applying to register a new charity they propose to call The Fund of Healing, Repair and Justice.

Britain’s campaign against slavery was expensive in both lives and money

There was a time when the better off flaunted their status by buying mansions, driving fancy cars, and wearing top hats. Today privilege is commonly assumed to be shameful. Western elites now prefer to sport superior moral status by championing fashionable “progressive” causes. These are “luxury beliefs” because they cost the elites nothing, while costing others a lot. One such cause is that of “decolonisation”, which defames Britain’s four-hundred years of colonial endeavour as a simple litany of racism, exploitation, and oppression – of which slavery is the epitome.