nigel biggar @NigelBiggar
NIGEL BIGGAR is Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Pusey House, Oxford. nigelbiggar.uk Oxford, England Joined August 2013-
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This will be a wonderful start in healing the rifts in our society & culture caused by the attempts to reduce us all to various immutable characteristics. Teach the truth, good & bad, in our history* but don’t obsess on what divides us. *cf @NigelBiggar’s Colonialism.
This will be a wonderful start in healing the rifts in our society & culture caused by the attempts to reduce us all to various immutable characteristics. Teach the truth, good & bad, in our history* but don’t obsess on what divides us. *cf @NigelBiggar’s Colonialism.
@WilliamClouston @GarettJones As I've told Professor @NigelBiggar before, this was throughly debunked by the eminently sensible liberal non woke economist @Noahpinion : noahpinion.blog/p/nations-dont…
Well @UweSteinhoff student unease at the repression of free speech is a sign of hope.
Well @UweSteinhoff student unease at the repression of free speech is a sign of hope.
Susan Durber finds "repugnant" my book on colonialism since it defends Canada's residential schools for Indian children, despite the discovery of mass graves on school grounds. But since the alleged discovery 3 years ago, no remains of a murdered child have been identified.
@NigelBiggar I think it is the impact of a misguided woke education and corresponding media in the West. It’s not only a problem in the UK. However, the student’s view seemed not to be completely dim, yet he said, “In the UK you cannot defend Empire.” He seemed to dislike this one-sidedness.
Thank you @UweSteinhoff ! What sense do you make of the fact that university-educated white Brits typically have a dimmer view of the British Empire than many Africans and Asians?
Thank you @UweSteinhoff ! What sense do you make of the fact that university-educated white Brits typically have a dimmer view of the British Empire than many Africans and Asians?
@krishk @NigelBiggar Wealthy families have sent children away to private school for many years. Yes, in many cases, this was not of the parent’s choice but the underlying rationale is the same… for the benefit of the child.
I’m trying to think of a politer way to put this but I can’t. Thick left-inclined idiots are being duped en masse by activists bent upon politicising and then rewriting every aspect of British history. Only haranguing and demoralising the majority into complacent apathy (and…
I’m trying to think of a politer way to put this but I can’t. Thick left-inclined idiots are being duped en masse by activists bent upon politicising and then rewriting every aspect of British history. Only haranguing and demoralising the majority into complacent apathy (and…
@NigelBiggar Thank you, Professor. But even if there were no graves, what is the rationale for separating children from their birth families?
@NigelBiggar @krishk They weren't separated, Krish. As Champion and Flanagan make clear, their parents sent them there with alacrity precisely because they prepared them to take an active constructive part in the life of a nascent Canada.
@NigelBiggar I think your book is great. I just recommended it in a course of mine, and students are clearly interested. It was a bit funny that I as a German had to explain to a British student that quite a few of the “colonized” people realized the benefits the Empire had brought.
Oh, Dr @krishk , the short answer is that the story of 'mass graves' of murdered children appears to have been a fabrication. See pp. 127-35 and also, more recently, the bestselling 'Grave Error', ed. C. Champion and Tom Flanagan.
Oh, Dr @krishk , the short answer is that the story of 'mass graves' of murdered children appears to have been a fabrication. See pp. 127-35 and also, more recently, the bestselling 'Grave Error', ed. C. Champion and Tom Flanagan.
@NigelBiggar @USPGglobal It's not a polemic. Its way of arguing makes it different from academic history narratives; the idea of 'a moral reckoning' is not what historians (ought) to do. It's a scholarly analysis of historical evidence from a different discipline. Disagree with it but don't bad-mouth it.
.@jamespriceglos feast on Chartwell, Knoll House, and Sissinghurst Gardens
.@jamespriceglos feast on Chartwell, Knoll House, and Sissinghurst Gardens
UK is richer than France, has a bigger economy, is a bigger exporter, a bigger military power, a bigger soft power, earns more from foreign investment, has less unemployed, a lower debt:GDP ratio & fewer food banks. Euro-elites hate populism but love fuelling it by telling lies.
This is the plot of a lost Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
This is the plot of a lost Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
Polemic — meaning — a work that argues something I disagree with.
Polemic — meaning — a work that argues something I disagree with.
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UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts theguardian.com/education/arti…
Well @UweSteinhoff student unease at the repression of free speech is a sign of hope.
@NigelBiggar I think it is the impact of a misguided woke education and corresponding media in the West. It’s not only a problem in the UK. However, the student’s view seemed not to be completely dim, yet he said, “In the UK you cannot defend Empire.” He seemed to dislike this one-sidedness.
Susan Durber finds "repugnant" my book on colonialism since it defends Canada's residential schools for Indian children, despite the discovery of mass graves on school grounds. But since the alleged discovery 3 years ago, no remains of a murdered child have been identified.
@NigelBiggar I think it is the impact of a misguided woke education and corresponding media in the West. It’s not only a problem in the UK. However, the student’s view seemed not to be completely dim, yet he said, “In the UK you cannot defend Empire.” He seemed to dislike this one-sidedness.
Thank you @UweSteinhoff ! What sense do you make of the fact that university-educated white Brits typically have a dimmer view of the British Empire than many Africans and Asians?
@NigelBiggar I think your book is great. I just recommended it in a course of mine, and students are clearly interested. It was a bit funny that I as a German had to explain to a British student that quite a few of the “colonized” people realized the benefits the Empire had brought.
@krishk @NigelBiggar Wealthy families have sent children away to private school for many years. Yes, in many cases, this was not of the parent’s choice but the underlying rationale is the same… for the benefit of the child.
I’m trying to think of a politer way to put this but I can’t. Thick left-inclined idiots are being duped en masse by activists bent upon politicising and then rewriting every aspect of British history. Only haranguing and demoralising the majority into complacent apathy (and…
Taxpayers funding a £475-a-day expert to 'decolonise' parts of Hadrian's Wall as part of an effort to address 'Britain's colonial past and systemic racism' at two ancient forts dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
@NigelBiggar Thank you, Professor. But even if there were no graves, what is the rationale for separating children from their birth families?
@NigelBiggar @krishk They weren't separated, Krish. As Champion and Flanagan make clear, their parents sent them there with alacrity precisely because they prepared them to take an active constructive part in the life of a nascent Canada.
@NigelBiggar I think your book is great. I just recommended it in a course of mine, and students are clearly interested. It was a bit funny that I as a German had to explain to a British student that quite a few of the “colonized” people realized the benefits the Empire had brought.
@NigelBiggar @USPGglobal It's not a polemic. Its way of arguing makes it different from academic history narratives; the idea of 'a moral reckoning' is not what historians (ought) to do. It's a scholarly analysis of historical evidence from a different discipline. Disagree with it but don't bad-mouth it.
UK is richer than France, has a bigger economy, is a bigger exporter, a bigger military power, a bigger soft power, earns more from foreign investment, has less unemployed, a lower debt:GDP ratio & fewer food banks. Euro-elites hate populism but love fuelling it by telling lies.
This is the plot of a lost Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
BREAKING: Reuters: The Houthis extend their arms and welcome US university students who have been expelled. Houthi Sanaa University: "We are serious about welcoming students that have been suspended from U.S. universities for supporting Palestinians." You can’t make this up.
Polemic — meaning — a work that argues something I disagree with.
Duncan Dormor .@USPGglobal calls "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" a 'polemic' that fails 'the rigorous standards expected in academia'. But a shoddy polemic wouldn't command the endorsement of historians Vernon Bogdanor, Niall Ferguson, Tirthankar Roy, and Jonathan Sumption.
@NigelBiggar @BruceDGilley @USPGglobal This⬇️ "Some people became virtually professional public denouncers during the Great Purges..they did this because they decided super-vigilance was the way to save their own skins and thus made a point of writing denunciations of everyone in their environment" -Everyday Stalinism
.@BruceDGilley It’s the Duncan .@USPGglobal who appointed himself the Guardian of the Standards of Academic Rigour … and then promptly fell short of them. Fool.
Duncan Dormor .@USPGglobal criticises Nigel Biggar's "crude utilitarian calculus” of the goods and evils of colonialism. But Biggar explicitly rejects such reasoning in 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning', p. 285, and Dormor ignores the actual moral evaluation he made on pp. 285-8.
@NigelBiggar @USPGglobal Professor, thank you for the link to the account of your experiences with Bloomsbury. A fascinating read and a glimpse into how anti-intellectual illiberalism has so easily swept over this country. An examination of the effect on societies of appeasing bullies would be welcome.
Duncan Dormor .@USPGglobal asserts that claims of a conspiracy to silence Nigel Biggar “are significantly overstated”. But Bloomsbury’s unilateral termination of 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning' is documented in “Anatomy of a Book Cancellation”, compactmag.com, 2/2/23:
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