Commonwealth – a fork in the road ahead

 “None of us can change the past” was King Charles’ attempt to tackle the reparations row over the transatlantic slave trade at the Commonwealth Heads meeting. From 1500, the British government and the monarchy were prominent participants in the centuries-long slave trade, alongside other European nations. British ships are reckoned  to have transported over three million enslaved Africans, mostly to colonies in the Caribbean and North America. Britain also had a key