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22 April 2024. By Nigel Biggar for The Daily Sceptic. In her speech at the London conference of TheCityUK last Thursday, Kemi Badenoch denied that Britain’s economic prosperity is mainly attributable to colonial exploitation. She made this historical claim because of its present political significance. If post-colonial governments really believe in the narrative of simple victimhood at…
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25 October 2023. By Nigel Biggar for the Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal. I have a dog in the political fight over Scottish independence. Proud to have been born in Kirkcudbrightshire, the son of a Scottish father and an English mother, educated on both sides of the border, and now living in England, I would not…
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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.