John Cleese pushed back on Lenny Henry's call for reparations with a familiar argument. Slavery existed for thousands of years, he said. The British did not start it. "On the contrary, they were the ones who stopped it" . The second sentence is true. Britain abolished slavery in 1833. What Cleese leaves out is what happened next. Britain did not just abolish slavery. It compensated the people who owned slaves. The government took out a £20 million loan—a sum worth billions today—and paid it to slave owners as compensation for the loss of their "property" . The enslaved received nothing. Not a pension. Not a plot of land. Not an apology. The loan was not fully repaid until 2015 . That means British taxpayers, including the descendants of enslaved Africans, spent 180 years paying off a debt taken out to compensate the people who had owned their ancestors. The research is specific. University College London found that half the £20 million stayed in Britain, distributed among 3,000 people. The other half went to planters in the colonies. In Jamaica, enslavers filed claims for 311,455 enslaved people and received £6.12 million. In Guyana, enslavers claimed for 84,074 Africans and received £4.28 million . The money built country houses, funded railways, and invested across the Empire. The descendants of those enslavers still benefit today. Cleese is right that slavery is older than the British Empire. He is right that Britain was not the only perpetrator. But he is wrong to use abolition as a shield. A country that ended slavery by paying the enslavers and leaving the enslaved with nothing does not get to claim the moral high ground without accounting for the bill. Lenny Henry's £19 trillion figure comes from the Brattle Group's 2023 report, which estimated the total harm of transatlantic chattel slavery across the Americas and the Caribbean . The number is contested. The history is not.

Since 2020 there have been FIVE exclusive PS5 games: - Demon's Souls - Destruction AllStars - Astro Bot - Ghost of Yotei - Saros Why in the hell would anyone buy another Sony console at this point, let alone one with a $1000+ price tag?

You can save only 3 from these GOTY winners, the rest will disappear🚀

A U.S. congressman wants to change how we legally “own” video games. Rep. Ritchie Torres has announced plans to introduce the Power To The Players Act, a bill that would direct the FTC to create rules protecting consumers who buy video games. The proposal would give players three basic rights: >The right to own the games they purchase, rather than simply receiving a revocable license >The right to keep playing games after online servers are shut down, through an offline mode >The right to transfer or resell games they own Torres argues that if a company can take a game away simply by shutting down its servers, then the consumer didn’t really buy the game in the first place. Torres also hopes the legislation could eventually establish a precedent for ownership rights across other parts of the digital economy: “If you pay for it, you own it.”

After 37 years, Fairly OddParents creator, Butch Hartman has finally revealed Timmy’s parent’s first names are “Coco” and “Butter”.

pra quem estava em duvida é movimentação de pr, eles n foram por livre espontanea vontade !!! Os outros foram marcados em suas contas, eles foram convidados de wednesday, espero ter ajudado !!!

Why does Jenna Ortega uses Dior when she needs to divert attention from her Nazi dog, yet she's unable to attend an event in person where she knows she’ll face questions? (The «scheduling conflicts» excuse no longer holds water.)

Welcome to the future. From the director of The Incredibles and Ratatouille comes RAY GUNN, starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Waits. In select theaters December 4 and on Netflix December 18.

If you could sit down with any of these guys when they were still alive, who would it be, and why?

porq chota no me hicieron hacer esto en la escuela ?

It's time for the UK to hand the Falklands back to Argentina. The UK needs to return this illegally occupied territory and stop the suffering of the residents that live there. If the UK wishes to boycott Israeli companies, we should no longer turn a blind eye to injustice.