Oh Dear, Looks Like The Guardian Will Have To Be Boycotted.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8443501/GUY-WALTERS-woke-Guardian-newspaper-founded-fortune-linked-cotton.html
Founded in 1821 by a cotton Merchant who made his money on the backs of slaves. TBF hardly anyone buys it anyway!

[brainiac]

Already mentioned
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1711548.html

[ToraToraTora]

yes but it was buried in another thread, I, thought it deserved more prominence.

[Jackdaw33]

You cannot get rid of the Grauniad. What are we to do the next time there's a shortage of toilet rolls?

[Gromit]

The Daily Mail’s founder, with a chum..

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/12/6/1323183795982/Rothrmere.Hitler.jpg?width=605&quality=45&auto=format&;fit=max&dpr=2&s=c171152fe555f3aa0100a9acc48d243d

[Deskdiary]

It wouldn’t really make a difference jackdaw; only The Daily Record (whatever that is) and City A.M., which is a freebie, have a lower circulation than Tue Guardian. Mind you, that’s hardly surprising, given clowns like Toynbee and Monbiot write for it.

[ToraToraTora]

yes gromit but no links to slavery so that's alright!

[mushroom25]

// The Daily Record (whatever that is) //

it's a regional paper, published in Scotland. it has close ties with the Daily Mirror.

[Jackdaw33]

The Daily Record is the Scottish version of the Daily Mirror.

[douglas9401]

aka The Daily Ranger.

[Deskdiary]

From henceforth The Guardian can now be referred to as the paper founded on the back of slavery.

The irony is delicious.

[Hopkirk]

That's it. I'm never buying the Guardian again.

[dannyk13]

Where will the lefties get their fake news now.

[gulliver1]

Oh Dear.

[douglas9401]

"Where will the lefties get their fake news now."

From poisonous right-wing rags, just as they do at the moment.

[Gromit]

Slavery was abolished in 1807 when Guardian founder John Edward Taylor was a 16 year old Apprentice in a Cotton Mill. He became a Cotton Merchant much later.

Trading in Cotton after slavery is abolished is hardly a stain on humanity. Everyone in Lancashire and Yorkshire at that time was involved in the cotton Trade.

[youngmafbog]

Oh no, what can I wipe my backside with now?

[tomus42]

I think I've got some old pictures of my great grandparents in the attic somewhere, and I reckon they were probably racists. I suppose I'll have to go up there, find the pictures and destroy them at some point.

[douglas9401]

While you're up there, tomus, could you cast around and see if there's something that the bogster could use to freshen up with?
Spare blushes and all that.

Ta.

[hessian]

Even though slavery had been abolished throughout the empire British traders were still importing cotton from the USA slave states all through their Civil War 1861-65 so J E Taylor could well have been involved.