Nigel Biggar CBE is author of Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, a Sunday Times bestseller. He chairs the board of trustees of the Free Speech Union. @NigelBiggar
ENNOBLED BY THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER
The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life.
Nominations from the Leader of the Conservative Party:
Nigel Biggar CBE – Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Anglican priest.
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The Myths of Indigenous History
24 January 2025. “John speaks with Dr. Nigel Biggar and Dr. Stephen Chavura to explore the complexities of history, challenging one-sided narratives of colonisation and conflict. Their discussion sheds light on the nuanced relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples, revealing both moments of mutual respect and undeniable tragedy. The discussion emphasises an understanding of history
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The case for slavery reparations doesn’t add up
06 January 2025. Nigel for Prospect. Demands by Caribbean nations for compensation ignore historical reality and the achievements of British abolitionism. White British involvement in Atlantic slave-trading and slavery for over a century-and-a-half up to the early 1800s amounted to “the Black Holocaust, the British genocide”, according to Sir Hilary Beckles, historian, vice-chancellor of the
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Grievance politics fuels new era of fake history
17 December 2024. Nigel for The Australian. Throughout the English-speaking world elites are falling over them- selves to believe the very worst of their own countries. Let’s consider Canada. In May 2021 an Indian band in Kamloops, British Columbia claimed ground- penetrating radar had discovered “soil disturbances” that evidenced unmarked graves containing the remains of
BOOKS
‘One of the leading living Western ethicists’
John Gray, New Statesman
articles
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Ethics & empire
‘Nowhere have I argued that the sins
of empire are out weighed by its
benefits. Empire is morally
complex and ambiguous’
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Biggar fearlessly goes where few other scholars now venture to tread: to defend the British empire against its increasingly vitriolic detractors … Those who wish to accuse the Victorians of genocide – who seek gulags in Kenya or Holocausts in the Raj – will probably not risk being ‘triggered’ by reading this book. But they really should.’
Niall Ferguson, Stanford University
and author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
MEDIA
‘Uncompromising and compelling’
Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge,
and author of The English and their History
