So it’s a “no” to reparations, yet again. No to repairing the damage done by the gravest and longest-sustained of human rights abuses, says Keir Starmer, once a crusading human rights lawyer. Buttressing his position is the foreign secretary, David Lammy, previously an advocate of reparations.
No from King Charles. Can’t turn back the clock, even if it is a rather nice clock bought with colonially ill-gotten gains.
