Anne Widdecombe announced her arrival in the European Parliament this week with a speech that made a spectacularly ill judged comparison between Brexit and the abolition of slavery. Widdecombe’s views on slavery, the British Empire and the last few hundred years of British history maybe eccentric and unpleasant, but she isn’t the only person with… Read More Slavery | Toussaint L’Ouverture, Somerset v Stewart 98 ER 499, Ann Widdecombe