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26 May 2023. Nigel Biggar for The Telegraph. The end is just and the means, while severe, are not immoral Earlier in May, the Archbishop of Canterbury described the Government’s illegal migration bill as “morally unacceptable”. This week, he advanced his opposition to the bill’s proposal to remove illegal cross-Channel migrants to Rwanda, by tabling…
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In an essay published in UnHerd (10 January 2022), Nigel Biggar offers Christian reflections on patriotism in general, as well as an apologia for the British species. Read ‘The importance of being British’ here.
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Nigel Biggar has published an article in a special issue of Studies in Christian Ethics 35, no. 1 (November 2021). The issue features essays gathered around the theme ‘Truth, lies, and Christian ethics’. Biggar’s article is titled ‘Whatever Happened to the Canaanites? Principles of a Christian Ethic of Mass Immigration’ (pp. 127-139). The open access article can…
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Nigel Biggar recently reviewed John Lloyd’s Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence (Polity Press, 2020) for The Critic Magazine. Biggar’s review, ‘Criminal insanity’, argues that calls for Scottish independence ought to be resisted. In fact, and in step with Lloyd, Biggar concludes that Scottish secession would be more than wrong-headed. It would be criminal. You…
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In a recently published essay on patriotism and loyality for the recently launched project “These Islands”, Nigel Biggar discusses the differences between Protestant and Catholic stances towards nationhood in European countries.
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Today saw the publication of an essay by Nigel Biggar for These Islands, an organisation dedicated to articulating and promoting an appreciation of the virtues of the United Kingdom. The essay offers an account of three things that the U.K. is good for: the better external security of liberal democracy in Europe, a degree of multinational solidarity of which the E.U.…
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In the wake of comments made by Sir Vince Cable, the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nigel Biggar argues in an op-ed forThe Times that the Brexit Vote was prompted by concern at the European Union’s imperial ambitions more than it was by nostalgia for Britain’s imperial past. A copy of the article is available to…
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Nigel Biggar recently published a response to an article by Stephen Baskerville alleging that Theresa May’s assumption of the UK premiership amounts to a coup d’état aimed at subverting the outcome of the EU Referendum on 23 June.
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In an op-ed article for the Easter Saturday edition of The Times, Nigel Biggar examines the impact on national identity of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. He reports recent social scientific evidence showing that the steady upward trend of Scots identifying themselves as British continues unabated, and argues that this implies that a large majority of Scots want…
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Church Times, 05 Sep 2014 Breaking up the UK would not help anyone, argues Nigel Biggar IN A COUPLE of weeks’ time, on 18 September, the residents of Scotland will vote whether or not to leave the United Kingdom (Comment, 2 November 2012, 14 March 2014; Paul Vallely 29 August). One way or another, the outcome will affect all…