Given Lenny Henry wants the British state to pay £18tn in slavery reparations, perhaps we should be thankful that the Church of England wants to cough up “only” £100m as part of its Project Spire, the Church Commissioners’ proposal to invest in “communities affected by historic transatlantic chattel slavery”.
Not only does the Church want to spend this money, but a parliamentary response to a question asked by the Conservative MP Neil O’Brien this week highlighted how its leaders are jumping through a series of legal hoops to do so, including applying to register a new charity they propose to call The Fund of Healing, Repair and Justice.
