The Guardian cancels itself, at last

The world’s wokest newspaper is at it again. Few voices were more vocal about race and reparations in that statue-toppling summer of 2020 than the Guardian: the newspaper of choice for the self-loathing left. So it is some irony then that the paper’s owner has today had to issue an apology for the role that the Guardian’s founders had in transatlantic slavery. Whoops!

The Scott Trust, which owns the Graun, has announced what the paper is calling a £10 million ‘decade-long programme of restorative justice’, with ‘millions dedicated specifically to descendant communities linked to the Guardian’s 19th-century founders.’ It comes after academic research established that John Edward Taylor, the journalist and cotton merchant who founded the newspaper in 1821 had links to slavery, mainly through the textile industry, along with at least nine of his 11 backers who funded the Guardian’s creation.

Katharine Viner, the editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media, has now issued a grovelling statement, declaring that:

We are facing up to, and apologising for, the fact that our founder and those who funded him drew their wealth from a practice that was a crime against humanity.