SUE REID: In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the sugar plantations of the West Indies helped to make Britain the world s richest country - at appalling cost to millions of enslaved Africans.
SIR – With the Harry & Meghan series on Netflix, and the publication today of the Duke of Sussex’s autobiography, Spare, it beggars belief that the Duke felt the need to give television interviews as well (report, January 9).
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Following news that Benedict Cumberbatch faces a possible compensation claim over his slave-owning ancestors, there has been a curious twist in the story.