CINEMA: Triumphing against all the odds – Amazing Grace*

William Wilberforce’s titanic struggle against the British slave trade is the subject of a new film, Amazing Grace, reviewed here by John Ballantyne.Ioan Gruffudd as William Wilberforce.Are you ever tempted to despair at the state of the world around you? Do you feel the wrong people seem to be in charge, and it’s almost futile to continue struggling to make the world a better place?If so, take heart from the career of the anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce (1759-1833), subje…

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