Tag: The Times
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How Bloomsbury dropped Travistock book
31 May 2024. By Andrew Ellison for The Times. Publisher insists the views of younger staff had no bearing on decision about the book on the gender identity services clinic, which went on to be a bestseller This article by The Times is the subject of a legal complaint from Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. One of…
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Glasgow’s British Empire exhibition is a travesty of the truth
28 May 2024. Nigel for The Times. Scotland owes over £20 billion in reparations for slavery, claims the Cambridge don, Michael Banner. And if the Kelvingrove Museum is to be believed, the Scots should pay it. “Glasgow was one of the major port cities in Britain which benefited from the [slave] trade”, declares its display,…
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Times letters: Moral legitimacy of military action in Gaza
31 Oct 2023. Nigel Biggar for The Times. Sir, to be fully proportionate, Israel’s response to Hamas’s deliberately indiscriminate slaughter of October 7 needs more than the prospect of military success and a reconstructed Gaza (“Is this a just war? Let’s apply some tests”, Philip Collins, Oct 30). It needs to belong to a political…
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Distorting our imperial history is dangerous
14 April 2023. By Nigel Biggar for The Times. As brutal regimes flex their muscles, nationalists’ caricatures of the Empire burden Britain with an imaginary guilt What moves voters is often not the analysis of policies. When the think tank These Islands conducted a focus-group survey of the Scottish electorate in 2021, it discovered that…
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Resisting the Thought Police
The creation of the non-partisan Free Speech Union, which was launched by Toby Young at the end of February, was inspired by the May 2019 McDonald Centre annual conference, ‘Academic Freedom under Threat: What’s to be Done?‘. Chairman of the FSU’s board of directors (here), Nigel Biggar, has argued in a recent Times article (24 February 2020) that the FSU is…
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The Need for Moral and Political Viewpoint Diversity in the University
In The Times 10 February 2020 Letter to the Editor, Nigel Biggar challenged his readers, and Education Secretary Sir Gavin Williamson, ‘to dispel the climate of self-censorship and inner exile’ and to champion moral and political viewpoint diversity in Universities. Editor of The Article Daniel Johnson offered a response to Biggar (read his ‘Universities need more intellectual and political diversity, as…
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Exclusions and Double Standards
Nigel Biggar has offered comment on the decision by Cambridge University to withdraw the invitation for Jordan Peterson to join the Divinity Faculty as a term-limited visiting fellow: Please read Biggar’s 02 April 2019 “Cambridge and the exclusion of Jordan Peterson” contribution to The Article here. Biggar’s “Cambridge has double standards on free speech”, a contribution to the Thunderer at The…
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Lost in the Cloud of Leftist Virtue Signalling
Nigel Biggar has offered comment on the Cambridge University decision to investigate its historical links to slavery in the 04 May 2019 weekend essay of The Times. Biggar argued, in part, ‘Whatever wrongs happened in the distant past, the fog of history makes it impossible to determine who deserves compensation for the slave trade’. He concluded by encouraging Cambridge to…
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Censorship and the Complexities of Empire
Last year (2017) several scholars denounced the McDonald Centre’s Ethics and Empire project and called for its termination. Recently, referring to such actions, David Sanderson of The Times newspaper quoted Trevor Phillips, former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, who observed a trend to reduce acceptable scholarship in the Academy to a narrow range of focal themes and…