Sterling Stuff

By some strange accident of history, it has fallen to a foreigner with a funny name to detect another glitter in the gleaming history of British fair play. While incentivising efficient working practices, the kind of people whose graven images are worshipped by the anti-woke did not rest content with buying people for real money. The bracelets which they exchanged for marketable wogflesh were made from debased copper, doubtless in order to grow the economy by keeping the good stuff at home and letting it trickle down to the less well-off. It is grievous to report that certain backsliding Africans were so unappreciative of British values that they would hammer the bracelets to test the quality of the metal. Nevertheless, patriots will rejoice to learn that the British entrepreneurial spirit retained its roguish pluck and gumption for so much of the three centuries that were necessary to abolish the slave trade.