Tag: The Telegraph
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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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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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Conservatives can’t afford to ignore the culture war – Kemi Badenoch gets this
30 July 2024. Nigel for The Telegraph. All candidates to lead the Party must demonstrate that they understand the issues that are at stake – and are willing to tackle them The “era of the culture wars is over”, declared Lisa Nandy in her inaugural speech as the Labour government’s culture secretary on 8 July.…
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Oxbridge protestors can’t hide their ignorance
7 May 2024. Students and staff are united through their foolish misunderstanding of Israel’s founding It’s no surprise that the widely broadcast pro-Palestinian protests in the US should have inspired some Oxford students to pitch their tents outside the Pitt Rivers Museum, decrying Oxford University’s historic complicity in the British Empire’s “disastrous colonial legacies” in Palestine. …
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Israel’s founding is complex and messy – but it certainly wasn’t imperialist
3 March 2024. By Nigel Biggar for The Telegraph. Opponents of the Jewish state smear it as a colonial project. This is a false narrative and fake history. The “decolonisation” story is a moral melodrama, performed in stark divisions: black versus white, oppressed versus oppressor, good versus evil. That’s the comic- book source of its…
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Colonialism: A Best Book of 2023
3 January 2024. “Nigel Biggar – one of our leading theologians but also, thanks to the intolerance of others, a leading controversialist – tackled one aspect of the culture wars with Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, published by William Collins after the original publisher backed out. Biggar confronts those who “condemn [British] colonialism as a whole for…
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Israel has every right to defend itself against Hamas’s war crimes – but it must find a just peace
15 October 2023. By Nigel Biggar for The Telegraph. An ‘Iron Wall’ will never make the Jewish state safe. The last 100 years shows it will only make some Palestinians nihilistically violent. Hamas’s attack on Israel has given fresh voice to the view that a just political end legitimates the use of any military means…
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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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The Bishops are wrong: there’s nothing immoral about controlling our borders
26 May 2023. Nigel Biggar for The Telegraph. The end is just and the means, while severe, are not immoral Earlier in May, the Archbishop of Canterbury described the Government’s illegal migration bill as “morally unacceptable”. This week, he advanced his opposition to the bill’s proposal to remove illegal cross-Channel migrants to Rwanda, by tabling…
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There is no moral case for Britain paying slavery reparations
14 May 2023. Nigel Biggar for The Sunday Telegraph. The UK did not play a unique role in the trade in human bondage, but it did in ending it. The clamour for reparations is growing louder. Last month, Laura Trevelyan announced that she is doing penance fro the sins of her slave-owning ancestors by giving…