Tag: The Times
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The Obsession with Gender Identity
In an opinion article published in The Times last week, Nigel Biggar argues that public debate over the social recognition of different identities, and of gender identity in particular, has gone too far.
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Civility in Academia
The Times published an op-ed essay by Nigel Biggar arguing that free academic inquiry is undermined by a lack of civility in public debates between university scholars and urging a recovery of ‘habits of self-restraint’ for the sake of both the universities and democratic society more widely. The article prompted a response from Kim Wagner and James McDougall in The Times Higher Education Supplement,…
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Brexit and imperial ambition
In the wake of comments made by Sir Vince Cable, the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nigel Biggar argues in an op-ed forThe Times that the Brexit Vote was prompted by concern at the European Union’s imperial ambitions more than it was by nostalgia for Britain’s imperial past. A copy of the article is available to…
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An Exchange on Assisted Suicide
Following a recent decision by the High Court rejecting a challenge by Noel Conway to change the law on assisted suicide (a decision influenced by Parliament’s rejection of a bill on assisted suicide in June 2015), The Times has published an exchange of letters on the nature and ethics of assisted suicide: Prof Nigel Biggar’s letter of April 1 elicited a response from…
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Charlie Hebdo: One Year On
In an op-ed piece for The Times Nigel Biggar argues that a distinction should be drawn between the legal right of satirists to exercise their freedom of speech and the moral permissibility of doing so. The article reprises and develops points he raised in a letter to the newspaper shortly after the attacks on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo on 7…