Tag: Kemi Badenoch
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Political Peerages December 2024
20 December 2024 The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life. Nominations from the Leader of the Conservative Party: Nigel Biggar CBE – Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Anglican priest. “Raising Nigel Biggar to the Lords is…
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It’s time to come off the fence: I’m a conservative
20 December 2024. Nigel for The Telegraph. Nigel Biggar has been ennobled by the Conservative Party leader “It’s time you came off the fence, Nigel.” So counselled conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton, turning half-around as he walked away from my Oxford front-door one sunny afternoon in 2016. He’d come to look at Christ Church’s wine-list…
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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…