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‘Colonialism’ Review: Empire Without Apology
01 September 2023. Tunku Varadarajan reviews Colonialism for the Wall Street Journal. There is acute subversive delight in reading Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, by Nigel Biggar, emeritus professor of theology at Oxford. The book’s manuscript was rejected in March 2021 by Bloomsbury, the British publishing house that commissioned it, on the spineless ground that “public…
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Colonialism discussed on the Church Ahead Podcast
31 August 2023. In July, Rev L of the Church Ahead Podcast discusses Nigel’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. What should British people think about their former empire? Should they feel ashamed? Hear Rev L’s thoughts through the audio player or Spotify link below.
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Rushi Sunak’s war on wokery is both morally right and electorally popular
6 August 2023. By Nigel Biggar for The Telegraph. The Government’s combative response to the recent Coutts’ de-banking of Nigel Farage on “progressive” political grounds suggests that Rishi Sunak is committed to the war against wokery. And so he should be, for three good reasons…. The culture war is no ‘concoction’; it’s a real danger…
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How the British ended slavery
01 August 2023. “In many former European colonies, August 1 is Emancipation Day, celebrating the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire almost two centuries ago. And while our postmodern sensibilities drive our cultural institutions to fixate on the offence of the latter fact, the sin of slavery (an offence shared across almost every culture…
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The Culture Wars and the Rhodes Trust at 120
4 July 2023. In this YouTube video, presented by the Alliance of Rhodes Scholars, Nigel speaks on Cecil Rhodes and the ethics of empire. Nigel’s talk was part of a panel on the history of the Rhodes Trust.
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In conversation with John Anderson
Nigel joins John Anderson for a conversation about Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. Through rigorous historical and ethical analysis, Nigel presents a strong case for why the ubiquitous anti-colonial narrative has little grounding in historical fact. Rather, Biggar argues, a survey of the actions of the British Empire in particular reveals it to be a strong…
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The case against reparations
5 June 2023. Nigel speaks with Lawrence Goldman of History Reclaimed. History Reclaimed is an independent group of scholars with a wide range of opinions on many subjects, but with the shared conviction that history requires careful interpretation of complex evidence, and should not be a vehicle for facile propaganda.
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On Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: A Reply to Alan Lester
2 June 2023. In the June 2023 issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Alan Lester has published a relentlessly critical, fifteen-thousand-word-long ‘review’ of Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. In his response, which appears in the same issue, Biggar reaches this conclusion: “there are only three minor points where [Lester’s] relentless barrage clearly hits…
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The Bishops are wrong: there’s nothing immoral about controlling our borders
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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Jordan B. Peterson Podcast: Separating Good from Evil in the British Empire
22 May 2023. ‘Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr. Nigel Biggar break down his new publication, “Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,” and parse out the truths and falsehoods from the modern day revisionist movement. They explore the ethics of imperialism, the motivations for the British colonies, their role in the slave trade, bringing modernity to much…