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The heroics of HMS Black Joke, a Royal Navy clipper that waged a fearless five-year war to put an end to the slave trade, are worthy of a Hollywood action movie.
Admiral Lord Alan West (pictured) has thrown his weight behind a campaign to create the first memorial to the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, which seized slave trade vessels bound for the Americas.
The Leader of the House of Commons urges the country not to be ashamed of its past or keep quiet about the achievements of its armed forces.
The revelation came while I was watching Antiques Roadshow. So, this is what drives the "woke" revolution. I should explain that the Antiques Roadshow, a BBC program that has been running since the '70s, has a special cultural place in Britain. The format is always the same. The presenters rock up in a pretty provincial town, local people ransack their attics for heirlooms to be valued, some bits of old junk turn out to be expensive, and everyone gets excited.
Did you know that, between 1808 and 1867, the United Kingdom spent 1.8% of its GDP annually on the campaign to abolish slavery — a sum calculated by Chaim Kaufmann and Robert Pape to be the most expensive foreign policy in human history?