Author: Nigel Biggar
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‘Colonialism’ featured on the Mars Hill Audio Journal
7 Nov 2024. Nigel joins Ken Myers of Mars Hill Audio, an audio journal founded in 1992, to discuss his book, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. Nigel speaks of the need for a historically informed moral accounting of the British empire. The other guests in the same issue of the Journal include Andrew Youngblood (Know Thyself); R. J. Snell (Lost in…
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The Leighton Smith Podcast: Professor Nigel Biggar on free speech
6 Nov 2024. Universities have a duty to support an environment where all sorts of ideas, some of them no doubt challenging, can come into play and where students are trained in the virtues necessary for us to have a liberal society. — Nigel Biggar
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Sean Plunket interviews Nigel Biggar from The Free Speech Union UK
05 November 2024. “Sean Plunket interviews Nigel Biggar from the Free Speech Union UK about the free speech movement, cancel culture in New Zealand, critical race theory, colonialism, media bias, and much more.” “Sean Plunket is the founding editor of The Platform and an award-winning veteran broadcaster and television presenter.“
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Why the history war matters
20 October 2024. Nigel Biggar says the controversy over empire is not really a controversy about history at all. It is about the present, not the past. In this conversation with Nick Cater, Professor Biggar talks about the reaction to his book, “Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning”, the experience of being cancelled, Israel’s war for survival…
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Democracy is crowning glory of monarchy
26 October 2024. By Nigel Biggar for The Australian. Republicans object to Australia’s hereditary monarchy, partly because it’s foreign and partly because it’s a medieval absurdity stranded in a modern, democratic age. If that were so—and if I were Australian—I’d object, too. But it’s not true. While Australia has long been an independent state, and…
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Intellectual rearmament
23 October 2024. By Nick Carter for Reality Bites by Nick Carter. The British theologian who gave us the ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice There is no such thing as an easy win in politics. It is wrong to assume from the margin of last year’s Aboriginal Voice referendum that the result was a…
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Phillip’s British Intrusion
19 October 2024. By Nigel Biggar for The Australian. The version below was originally given on 14 October 2024 as an address to St Mary-le-Bow Church, London, on the occasion of the birth of Admiral Arthur Phillip. I Did Admiral Arthur Phillip spearhead the invasion of Aboriginal Australia? While an annual commemoration of his birth…
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SDP Talk with Nigel Biggar
22 September 2024. In this episode of SDPTalk, William Clouston is joined by Nigel Biggar, former Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, and author of several books including the Sunday Times bestseller, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. As calls for ‘decolonisation’ echo through our institutions and our fellow citizens…
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The history culture war and how to fight it justly: a Christian view
19 August 2024. An essay History has always been contested. The indubitable facts may provide firm common ground, but how to make sense of them, which ones to foreground and which to marginalize, how to distribute the weight of significance among them, and above all how to evaluate them morally will always be a matter…
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Double Effect and Human Rights in War
11 August 2024. Nigel for Quillette. The flawed moral reasoning of the ICC’s panel of legal experts would have approved the arrests of Churchill and Eisenhower. When, in June, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and defence minister over their conduct in Gaza, the Conservative government objected that the…