Cry freedom!

It is a very strange thing, the slave trade was abolished with the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act by the British Parliament in 1807, however it took until the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act to end slavery itself. [1]. This was achieved by giving slave owners £20 million compensation (about £16 billion today) for the […]

We will have an end to Iain Duncan Smith’s hate and lies

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,193 Friday 04 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Iain Duncan Smith might be as smug as a cockroach after a nuclear blast about being regarded as ‘a hate figure in some circles’, as Julia Hartley-Brewer put it in an interview on LBC radio, but he is accountable […]