Gladstone and slavery Friday, 23 August, 2024 Ever since the dangerous left-wing movement, Black Lives Matter, started making wild allegations about various people in the past, William Gladstone has been subject to grave slurs about his attitude to slavery. Alistair Lexden responded to the most recent of them in a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on 22 August. SIR - “Decolonisation training experts” in Wales (report, August 20) will... Articles
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