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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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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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Was the British Empire evil?
22 May 2023. Nigel Biggar for The Hub. A look at the global historical context tells a more nuanced tale than black and white judgements allow for. Today the country is taking a statutory holiday in honour of Queen Victoria, the figure perhaps most emblematic of colonial empire. It requires a bit of cognitive dissonance given that…
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McDonald Centre Officially Launched
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life was officially launched in the Examination Schools at the University of Oxford. Over eighty people attended the event, which featured my inaugural address as Director of the Centre, while supporting remarks were offered by Dr Paul Joyce, Chair of the Board of…