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On behalf of the British people, I would like to apologise for the slave trade. I am sorry we were the first great power in history to turn its guns on it. I am sorry it cost us around 2,000 sailors to free 150,000 people they would never meet. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.
Slavery did not begin with Britain. It is as old as civilisation. Babylon wrote it into law. Rome built an empire on it. The Vikings sold Englishmen through the slave market at Dublin. In 1625 Barbary corsairs took 60 men, women and children out of a Cornish church; by 1640 Parliament was told 3,000 to 5,000 English people were held in Algiers alone.
Every great power of the age took part in the Atlantic trade. Portugal and Spain for a century before an English ship did. Then the Dutch, the French — and the British, who in the eighteenth century carried more than anyone. That is the record. It is not disputed here.
Then a nation turned on the trade that had made it rich.
Wilberforce's bill was beaten year after year. On 25 March 1807 it passed. Then Britain did the part the critics never mention — it sent the Royal Navy to enforce it. The West Africa Squadron sailed in 1808, two ships for 3,000 miles of coast, and hunted slavers for nearly sixty years. Britain paid Spain and Portugal to open their ships to search. HMS Black Joke ran down the slaver El Almirante in 1829 and found 466 people in her hold.
Around 2,000 British sailors died doing it — most of fever, to free people they would never meet. 1,600 slave ships seized. 150,000 Africans set free.
In 1833 Parliament borrowed £20 million to end slavery across the Empire. The debt was not finally redeemed until 2015. The United States needed a civil war. Cuba held slaves until 1886. Brazil until 1888 — eighty-one years after Westminster voted.
Yes, we took part in the trade. Every power of the age did. None of them fought it like we did.
So yes. I will apologise. I am sorry it cost us so much. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.
That is not something you apologise for. That is something you teach.
#history #britishhistory #royalnavy #westafricasquadron
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Space feels a little emptier tonight.
For so many of us, Sir Patrick Stewart was the captain we grew up trusting. When Jean-Luc Picard stood up to speak, you listened. He could face down a warship, defend a stranger’s humanity or quietly admit he was wrong—and make every moment believable.
He gave Star Trek its conscience as much as its commanding voice. Through Picard, he showed us that intelligence, compassion and courage belonged together in the captain’s chair.
And there was something rather special about a Yorkshire lad taking the bridge of the Enterprise and making the universe listen.
Thank you for the adventures, Sir Patrick. For the dignity, the warmth, and the belief that humanity might yet become something better.
The bridge is yours, Number One. Our captain has earned his rest.
Goodnight, Sir Patrick. And thank you. 🖖
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He had already escaped the burning aircraft. He could have kept running. Instead, he turned back to save a man who could not escape.
On 16 March 1944, 20-year-old RAF trainee navigator Bill Foxley was aboard a Wellington bomber that crashed shortly after take-off from Castle Donington.
Bill made it out alive.
Then he heard a fellow crewman trapped inside the burning aircraft.
Without hesitation, he went back.
The flames had turned the bomber into an inferno. Bill reached his wireless operator and tried to pull him to safety. But as he escaped through the astrodome, the fire caught him. His crewmate did not survive.
Bill did, but the cost was devastating.
The fire destroyed much of his face and hands. He lost his right eye, and his remaining sight was severely damaged. At Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe and his team performed 29 operations over three and a half years, working painstakingly to repair the injuries that had changed Bill's life forever.
Yet some wounds could not be seen.
For years, strangers stared at his scars. On trains between Crawley and London, passengers sometimes approached the empty seat beside him, noticed his face and quietly moved away.
Imagine surviving a burning aircraft, enduring years of surgery, only to face another kind of pain in everyday life: being treated as though your appearance made you someone to fear.
Bill refused to let bitterness define him.
When people recoiled from his scars, he sometimes reassured them with a gentle sense of humour:
“It's all right. I'm not going to bite you.”
Even after everything he had endured, he could still offer kindness to people who did not know how to respond to him.
He returned to work, built a successful career as a facilities manager and continued running long distances well into his seventies. He also appeared in the 1969 film Battle of Britain, helping bring the experiences of badly burned airmen closer to public understanding.
But it was what he did for others that made his life especially remarkable.
As a member of the Guinea Pig Club, Bill supported fellow survivors whose lives had been transformed by devastating burns. His commitment extended to helping wounded servicemen and disabled people find opportunities to rebuild their lives.
Think about that for a moment.
The young airman who had once risked everything to save a trapped comrade spent decades helping others discover that life could still hold purpose, dignity and hope after unimaginable suffering.
He could not change that terrible night in 1944. He could not bring his crewmate back or erase the injuries he had carried for the rest of his life.
But he could decide what those injuries would mean.
Bill Foxley chose courage over bitterness, compassion over resentment and service over surrender.
His scars told the story of what he had survived. His actions told the story of who he was.
First, he walked back into the flames for another man.
Then, for the rest of his life, he helped others find their way forward.
Bill Foxley was far more than a survivor. He was a reminder that the truest measure of courage is not simply how much a person can endure, but how much kindness they can still give afterwards.
May his courage, his compassion and his extraordinary service never be forgotten.
Lest we forget.
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The post they keep taking down - Even though it is already public knowledge.
Second time of posting, first time the tweet mysterious disappeared - how could that happen.
Nigel Farage's home was fire bombed. The MET Police dismissed the incident as a robbery attempt. Failed to fully investigate. Does anyone believe MET Chief Constable was not involved in that decision?
It has now been admitted by the MET Police that video existed of the suspect trying to force the door, and that they found a failed IED, an incineration device, inside the vestibule, that had failed to fully deploy.
We now know the same suspect appeared in court charged with fire bombing of Farage's home as has been charged with the murder of Anne Widdecombe.
It appears the MET Police failure to investigate, to downgrade a fire bombing to a robbery, could have resulted in an avoidable murder taking place. The murder of Anne Widdecombe might have been avoidable.
The MET have referred themselves to the IOC. This is a huge scandal brewing for the MET and Rowley. This is second time posting, this is all on the public record but mysteriously the tweet disappears.
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These are the 364 MP's who voted against a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation and Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs.
They deserve to be named and shamed . Never forget their betrayal in which they placed the Muslim block vote before children’s safety!
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