Nigel Biggar

Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and director of the ‘Ethics and Empire’ project at the University of Oxford.

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A Mixture of Pride and Shame

The left’s refusal to frame the British Empire as anything but a force for pure evil makes for effective culture-war politics. But it also makes for bad history.

Nigel Biggar

8 May 2023 · 10 min read

The Drayton Icon and Intellectual Vice

Some attacks are best absorbed, not fended off. Some accusations are best let past, not answered. Life is far too short to slap down every slight, and those of a determined ill will won’t be moved anyway. Besides, too thin a skin betrays a touchy insecurity that suggests the

Nigel Biggar

27 Aug 2019 · 18 min read