Earlier this month the African Union joined the Caribbean Community (‘Caricom’) in demanding reparations from Britain for its ‘colonial crimes’, especially slavery. Caricom has already submitted its bill of £18 trillion. Indeed, ‘decolonisation’ has already become expensive for members of the Church of England. In November 2023 the Church Commissioners of England, responsible for the church’s property assets, committed itself to deploy an initial £100 million to establish an investment fund to support communities ‘affected by historic slavery’. As Richard Dale, retired professor of international banking and author of The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble (2004), has written:Read here