“If you eat sugar, you’re probably eating sugar that came from sugar factories that were worked by slaves, and so it goes round and round.
“Lots of things were obviously reprehensible, the slave trade being one; you can’t defend that.”
The actress explained that certain things that were done in the past can’t be changed.
She questioned how much of the past can be “smashed up” without the “wrecking ball” coming close to “your own house”.
Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World airs on ITV on Thursday at 9pm.
Published at Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:01:00 +0000
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