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Barbados poet laureate on mission to share stories of enslavement

Esther Phillips says her poetry’s ‘ultimate goal’ is to achieve justice for those who suffered at hands of European colonisers

The Guardian - US · Jun 23, 2025

Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations

Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely originates from these plantations. One frequent target of this criticism has been the Drax family of Dorset, which is headed by Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, who was the Conservative MP…

The Conversation · Jun 18, 2025

OPINION - If the polls are right, soon Tory squabbles won't matter a jot

What does Mark Francois think? Is this acceptable to Richard Drax? Can we keep Pauline Latham on board? For the last 15 years, these have been important questions, and for good reason.

Evening Standard · Jul 3, 2024

The King’s Speech should have reintroduced national service, Tory MP says

South Dorset MP Richard Drax admitted that he had ‘mixed feelings’ about the King’s Speech.

The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023

Tory MP's historic family links to slavery raise questions about Britain's position on reparations

“Reparations have been paid for other wrongs and obviously far more quickly, far more speedily than reparations for what I consider the greatest atrocity and crime in the history of mankind: transatlantic chattel slavery.” So noted the eminent Jamaican international jurist Judge Patrick Robinson, when launching the 115-page Brattle Report…

The Conversation · Sep 1, 2023

‘I felt absolutely sick’: John Gladstone’s heir on his family’s role in slavery

Charlie Gladstone on why the only way he can live with his family’s dark past is to turn it into something positive

The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2023

Suella Braverman accused of 'unworkable' PR stunt after missing barge target

The under-fire Home Secretary had previously claimed that the Bibby Stockholm would be in place in Portland Port, Dorset, by now - but the barge is still 120 miles away undergoing checks

Daily Mirror · Jun 26, 2023

Royal Navy aircraft carrier repair bill rises to £25m - and you're going to pay

MPs heard the cost of fixing the faulty propeller on HMS Prince of Wales had climbed to £25m - and it will come out of the Navy's budget because the Ministry of Defence did not take out a 'warranty'

Daily Mirror · Jun 21, 2023

Sunak says ‘stop the boats’ plan is ‘starting to work’ as he announces two new barges

PM accused of ‘self-congratulatory’ hubris – but insists his policies are acting as a deterrent rather than poor weather in Channel

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2023

Tory divisions over post-Brexit laws exposed in Commons clashes

Kemi Badenoch accused of disrespecting backbenchers who fear ‘bonfire of regulations’ will not take place

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2023