Tag: Decolonisation
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SDP Talk with Nigel Biggar
22 September 2024. In this episode of SDPTalk, William Clouston is joined by Nigel Biggar, former Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, and author of several books including the Sunday Times bestseller, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. As calls for ‘decolonisation’ echo through our institutions and our fellow citizens…
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Britain, Slavery and the Problem with ‘Decolonisation’
Nigel Biggar has published two essays that bring to a reader’s attention a history of slavery and the British response that calls into question the narratives of racial discord and need for reparations that decolonisation movements (i.e., Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter) proffer. Biggar outlines a vast history of slavery while highlighting anti-slavery movements, which too…