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Following the publication of the long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq War by Sir John Chilcot, Nigel Biggar offers a series of critical reflections on its strengths and weaknesses.
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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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At the beginning of the season of Lent, Nigel Biggar has written an op-ed article for The Times in which he examines Japan’s ongoing failure to repent of its complicity in war crimes in order to explore broader questions of shame, guilt, forgiveness, and cultural memory. A copy of the article is available to read here.
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In the last few months a group of students at the University of Oxford has been applying pressure on the governing body of Oriel College to remove a memorial plaque and statue of Cecil Rhodes, the nineteenth-century British colonialist and businessman who attended Oriel and bequeathed a substantial legacy to it on his death in 1902. In…
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In an op-ed piece for The Times Nigel Biggar argues that a distinction should be drawn between the legal right of satirists to exercise their freedom of speech and the moral permissibility of doing so. The article reprises and develops points he raised in a letter to the newspaper shortly after the attacks on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo on 7…
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In the inaugural issue of Providence, a journal published by the Institute of Religion & Democracy in Washington, DC, Nigel Biggar argues that, while they should remain true to their characteristic biblical and theological commitments, Christian ethicists also need to sharpen their thinking through analytical philosophical reflection, and make it practically plausible through a close study of history and sustained personal engagement with those who bear the burden of making complex and uncertain moral…
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Please read Nigel’s briefing, which is held at the McDonald Centre website here.
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British firepower would be effective if we were prepared to deploy sufficient military force. Sir, Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, is correct to call the lack of RAF airstrikes against Isil in Syria “morally indefensible”. Last week the House of Commons foreign affairs committee recommended no extension of British military action into Syria “unless there…
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On October 10 the London Times featured a leading opinion column (link here – subscription required) by Prof. Nigel Biggar in which he argues the case for British military intervention in the conflict in Syria in the interests of securing greater international peace and stability. The text of the main article can be found below.…