Kemi Badenoch: War on woke veers into apologia for colonialism

Yes, Minister: Slavery did fuel the rise of British capitalism

And the Bank of England is just one British institution that agrees…

Paul Mason
9 min readApr 20, 2024

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Kemi Badenoch took time out of her job as trade minister to clam, last week, that the “wealth and success of the UK” is not “down to colonialism or white imperialism or privilege or whatever”.

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Paul Mason

Journalist, writer and film-maker. Author of How To Stop Fascism.