Category: Free Speech and Political Diversity
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Dissent is not hatred
17 April 2024. By Nigel Biggar for The Critic. There’s definitely no debate about whether she is transphobic or not…. She’s putting out so much hate”. So asserted Katie Neeves, biological male turned transgender female and founder of Cool to be Trans, on the BBC’s World at One last Tuesday, responding to a long string of…
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Colonialism, Empires, and War
20 February 2024. ‘Historian, theologian and ethicist Nigel Biggar CBE, emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and Danube Institute Visiting Fellow David Oldroyd-Bolt discuss Professor Biggar’s bestselling book ‘Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning’, which his original publisher tried to cancel before it had even been published, as well as…
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Vote now: Nigel named one of Prospect’s Top Thinkers 2024
6 December 2023. Every year, Prospect puts together a list of Top Thinkers—a curated list of people who, through their ideas, are making an impact in the world right now—and asks you, the readers of this esteemed magazine, to vote for a winner. This year the Prospect editorial team, together with some of our regular writers and contributors, have…
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The left doesn’t mean what it says
28 October 2023. The Spectator. ‘Nigel Biggar, from the University of Oxford, says a new progressive has emerged, which is far more cynically-motivated than the old kind. These new progressives back fashionable, left-wing causes for money, and because their thinking is founded in a kind of warped Christianity. To explain, Nigel joins Cindy Yu.’
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What really motivates the ‘new progressives’
5 October 2023. By Nigel Biggar for The Spectator. Kemi Badenoch is right to say that Britain is not a racist country. The data simply does not support the claim that black and ethnic minority (BME) people in the UK are generally disadvantaged because of the racial prejudice of white Britons – that ‘systemic racism’…
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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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On the Faith of Feet: Nigel Biggar Discusses Christianity, Empire, Evil, and Reasons for Optimism
4 May 2023. Nigel joins Robert Aitken at The New Humanum. ‘Nigel Biggar is Emeritus Professor of Moral & Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life. He studies the contribution of religion to the health of liberal societies; moral questions about killing (especially…
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C-SPAN: Having a Book “Cancelled”
30 March 2023. Nigel spoke on C-SPAN’s About Books, discussing the cancellation of Colonialism by Bloomsbury.
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Cancellation, Western Values, and Enemy Love
5 March 2023. Nigel joins Luke of the Creed & Culture podcast to discuss the cancellation of his recent book, enemy love, and why Christians should care about the history of the West. You can also listen to the episode on:
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Was the British Empire Racist?
A podcast appearance on Matt Goodwin’s Subcast. 10 February 2023. ‘Nigel’s the author of the new book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, which, as he tells us, was only published after a very long battle with publishers. It’s quite the story. In the podcast, we talk about that battle, what is going wrong in the universities, what…