Category: House of Lords
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Political Peerages December 2024
20 December 2024 The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life. Nominations from the Leader of the Conservative Party: Nigel Biggar CBE – Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Anglican priest. “Raising Nigel Biggar to the Lords is…
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It’s time to come off the fence: I’m a conservative
20 December 2024. Nigel for The Telegraph. Nigel Biggar has been ennobled by the Conservative Party leader “It’s time you came off the fence, Nigel.” So counselled conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, turning half-around as he walked away from my Oxford front-door one sunny afternoon in 2016. He’d come to look at Christ Church’s wine-list…
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Raising Nigel Biggar to the Lords is Badenoch’s best decision as Tory leader so far
20 December 2024. Willian Atkinson for The Telegraph. As one of Britain’s leading centre-right intellectuals, the distinguished priest will greatly improve the lightweight tory benches Few would suggest Kemi Badenoch had has a perfect start as Leader of the Conservative Party. Faltering PMQs matched with a half-hearted immigration mea culpa and a one-woman war on…
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Colloquium: Should we defend an established church?
On 23 March, the McDonald Centre hosted a colloquium to consider the rationale for the establishment of the Church of England—at a time when voices on the political left are calling for Anglican bishops to be ejected from the House of Lords. Among the questions tackled were: What are the public benefits of church establishment? How can the…