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  • 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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  • 9 January 2024. ‘When we accuse a country of being a “coloniser”, it’s meant as a bad thing. But what if colonialism is okay? What if the British Empire was, on balance… good? That’s the position of Nigel Biggar, a Professor Emeritus at Oxford University whose new book, “Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning”, is making heads…

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  • 13 December 2023. Nigel joins The Rasheed Griffith Show to discuss Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. Listen here or through the Spotify player below. The British Empire was more than just colonialism and slavery. Framing it as such does a deep disservice to history, impedes progress in the present, and is an attempt to rewrite history…

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  • The Inspiration Project

    16 November 2023. Nigel joins Brendan Corr of The Inspiration Project, an Australian Christian College (ACC) podcast. Listen through the player or ACC link below. From the ACC website description: On this episode of The Inspiration Project, Brendan Corr talks to Emeritus Professor Nigel Biggar about what attracted him to an academic life, why books…

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  • 15 November 2023. In this episode of Australiana, a podcast of The Spectator Australia, Nigel joins host Will Kingston to discuss colonialism. From the episode description: Today, colonialism is viewed by many as the original sin of British history. The truth is far more complex. Theologian, ethicist, and author Nigel Biggar is one of the…

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  • 9 November 2023. Nigel makes a guest appearance on ADH TV’s Fred Pawle Show. ‘A nation divided cannot stand: Some parts of London look more like central Asia than Britain. Enoch Powell envisaged this, and warned that it would lead to instability and violence. Special guests: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Professor Nigel Biggar and Avi Yemini.…

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  • 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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  • 29 September 2023. Nigel joins Chuong Nguyen of the Unlicensed Philosophy podcast to discuss Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. Listen through the player below or on the Unlicensed Philosophy homepage.

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