It is very interesting to witness some real emotional antipathies which we on the west side of the pond are simply unaware of. I was unaware of the Barclays much as I was unaware of some of the London criminal class until I heard Monty Python's sketch about Doug and Dinsdale Pirhana (the Kray brothers).

but there is (was) a great British tradition of appreciating good arguments well expressed even if they don't come from a normally approved source. I had an Irish friend who just loved telling the story of Samuel Johnson's letter to Lord Chesterfield, which while it was greatly to the Lord's detriment, was so well written that the Lord himself displayed the letter ever after.

I am NOT holding up the movie Amazing Grace (2006) as equivalent to history, but it represents an English abolition movement that led to historic developments well ahead of anything on this continent. Surely an article in any English paper that brings this up is entitled to some tolerance.