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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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Following a recent decision by the High Court rejecting a challenge by Noel Conway to change the law on assisted suicide (a decision influenced by Parliament’s rejection of a bill on assisted suicide in June 2015), The Times has published an exchange of letters on the nature and ethics of assisted suicide: Prof Nigel Biggar’s letter of April 1 elicited a response from…
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On January 31, 2017, Policy Exchange, one of Britain’s leading public-policy think-tanks, invited Prof Nigel Biggar to deliver a lecture on some of the moral lessons to be learned from the recent history of British military interventions abroad. After Iraq, he asks, in what circumstances should Britain go to war? The lecture was followed by a Vote…
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In response to the criticisms raised by Kwame Anthony Appiah against the idea of “Western Civilisation” in last year’s Reith Lectures, Nigel Biggar argues in an op-ed in The Times that the idea has considerable merit and, further, that we must take seriously its historic roots in Christianity. A copy of the article is available to read here.
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A report released last week by the Joint Business, Innovation and Skills and International Development Committee claims to have found evidence of breaches of international humanitarian law by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shia rebels in neighbouring Yemen. The report recommends that the UK should stop sales of weapons which could be used by the coalition pending a formal inquiry. In a letter…
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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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The April 2014 issue of Journal of Medical Ethics, one of the leading international journals in bioethics, featured an article by Prof. Nigel Biggar arguing the case for the place of religious reasoning in medical ethics. The article provoked three critical commentaries from Dr. Brian Earp (Oxford Centre for Neuroethics) (here), Dr. Kevin Smith (Abertay University) (here), and Xavier Symons (Sydney University)…
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See Nigel’s contribution to Agenda, the column for outside contributors at The Herald, here.
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Read Nigel’s essay ‘Evaluating the Somme‘ at Providence Magazine.