Category: Free Speech and Political Diversity
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Light in the darkness
13 November 2024. In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation This article is taken from the November 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now they’re offering five issues for just £10. What does history do? You read about human beings…
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Empire, ethics, and academic freedom: a conversation with Nigel Biggar
8 Nov 2024. “In this episode, Michael and James talk to Oxford theologian Nigel Biggar as he discusses his experiences with academic cancel culture and argues that while the British Empire had significant flaws, it also helped spread important liberal values and institutions throughout the world. “The conversation then delves into how modern universities are…
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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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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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Deconstructing decolonisation
6 August 2024. Deconstructing “decolonisation”: what it is, why it matters, and why it’s (mostly) wrong “The ‘decolonisation’ movement assumes that the colonial record of the West is simply a litany of racism, exploitation, and oppression of ‘black’ victims by ‘white’ victimisers. As a matter of historical fact, this is false. But when ‘decolonisers’ are…
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Podcast Against Antisemitism
25 July 2024. “Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar is a historian, theologian and ethicist currently serving as Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford. Nigel has been described as “one of the leading living Western ethicists” by the New Statesman, and is named as one of Prospect Magazine’s Top Thinkers of 2024.…
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How Bloomsbury dropped books on gender ideology and British colonialism
1 June 2024. By Frederick Attenborough for the Free Speech Union. One of Britain’s biggest publishers dropped a book about malpractice at the Tavistock gender identity clinic, cancelled another contracted manuscript on the complex legacy of British Empire, and later sacked the editor who had supported both projects, reports the Times in an article that is now…
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How Bloomsbury dropped Travistock book
31 May 2024. By Andrew Ellison for The Times. Publisher insists the views of younger staff had no bearing on decision about the book on the gender identity services clinic, which went on to be a bestseller This article by The Times is the subject of a legal complaint from Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. One of…
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Kemi Badenoch was right to deny Britain’s economic prosperity is due to white privilege and colonialism
22 April 2024. By Nigel Biggar for The Daily Sceptic. In her speech at the London conference of TheCityUK last Thursday, Kemi Badenoch denied that Britain’s economic prosperity is mainly attributable to colonial exploitation. She made this historical claim because of its present political significance. If post-colonial governments really believe in the narrative of simple victimhood at…