The Weekend Intelligence: The Apology
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🗓️ 27 October 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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The subject of reparations - making amends for wrongs, is a topic which has been building momentum over the past decade. And last week it was especially relevant as the Commonwealth heads of government got together to discuss how they think Britain owes them financial reparations, and apologies, for enslaving their people over one hundred and fifty years ago.
This is a subject we covered on The Weekend Intelligence in October 2023, in our third episode. In it our reporter Charlie McCann travelled to Guyana with the Gladstone family whose ancestors owned thousands of slaves in the country formerly known as Demerara. In the episode Charlie asks what it means to inherit guilt and how you go about apologising for the past.
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| 1:06.7 | Sometimes stories we've covered in the past become newly relevant. That happened this week. |
| 1:15.5 | Commonwealth heads of government are preparing to confront Britain about reparations for the |
| 1:19.9 | transatlantic slave trade. At the Commonwealth Summit in Samoa, many leaders push for what they |
| 1:25.5 | called reparatory justice. That would leave the UK |
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