Writing Cheques News Today

radio presenterjenny kleeman, and kate ferguson, whos deputy political editor of the sun. hello to you both. the front pages... the uks new defence pacts with sweden and finland make the front page of the telegraph, which says britain would help them fight the russians in case of any invasion. alongside is a picture of borisjohnson and his swedish counterpart, taking to the water after signing their pact. a picture of them putting pen to paper is in the financial times, which leads wit...

All right, but how do you make the case now? look, here we are in barbados, its a middle—income country, so it doesnt qualify for a lot of development aid. so, when you have somebody like rory stewart, who, in the united kingdom, was a former secretary for international development, and he says he would have liked to target uk aid to the poorest people in the world, rather than paying reparations in some weird belief, he says, that we are going to somehow undo 300, 400 years of colonial histor...

They were enslaving. they were agricultural people, they were teachers, they were artisans, they were politicians — all kinds of people were scraped up in the slave trade and brought to the sugar plantations. they didnt consider the diversity of occupation and wealth at the time, so why should they be concerned about it today? it has always been a feature of the victimisation of the black community. all right, but how do you make the case now? look, here we are in barbados, its a middle—inco...

Like rory stewart, who, in the united kingdom, was a former secretary for international development, and he says he would have liked to target uk aid to the poorest people in the world, rather than paying reparations in some weird belief, he says, that we are going to somehow undo 300, 400 years of colonial history by writing cheques to people. well, there you go again. there you go again. the narrative of those who believe that they ought to determine for the victims of this process how this sh...

And wealth at the time, so why should they be concerned about it today? it has always been a feature of the victimisation of the black community. all right, but how do you make the case now? look, here we are in barbados, its a middle—income country, so it doesnt qualify for a lot of development aid. so, when you have somebody like rory stewart, who, in the united kingdom, was a former secretary for international development, and he says he would have liked to target uk aid to the poorest peop...

Distribution of the peoples they were enslaving. they were agricultural people, they were teachers, they were artisans, politicians, all kinds of people were scraped up in the slave trade and brought to the sugar plantations. they did not consider the diversity of occupation and wealth at the time, so why should they be concerned about it today? it has always been a feature of the victimisation of the black community. but how do you make the case now? look, here we are in barbados, it is a middl...