The Norman Conquest is a crime against humanity that remains, over a millennium on, entirely unsettled. The French still refuse to pay reparations for the 1066 genocide. And the rapacious Norman invader class remains firmly at the pinnacle of every aspect of public life in Britain. Indeed, the economist Gregory Clark has shown that, in some ways, the Conquest never truly ended because Norman surnames remain overrepresented at Oxbridge some thirty generations on. Some of the nation’s most glittering buildings still wear their Norman Caen stone shamelessly; walk past many great ecclesiastical facades and the conspiracy is right there in plain sight, yet no one mentions it.

France owes us money and the maths is fairly simple

France owes us money and the maths is fairly simple

So France owes us money and the maths is fairly simple. By 1086, the Norman land-grabbers had helped themselves to roughly a third of England’s 12.5 million arable acres. At a conservative £8,500 an acre, that implies a quite reasonable £35 billion owed by France to the Anglo-Saxon population. Not a penny has been paid.

As always, the fault lies not in the stars but with Westminster. Parliament groans under the weight of hundreds of performative All-Party Parliamentary Groups, from champions of ‘responsible vaping’ to advocates for ‘Afrikan reparations’. Yet no one has thought to establish an APPG for Anglo-Saxon Restitution, let alone a spicier judge-led inquiry into the Harrying of the........

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