nigel biggar

NIGEL BIGGAR is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas, Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Pusey House, Oxford.

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

A rather unexceptional offering from BBC on why the Church Commission is still wanting to divert £100million into a reparations project aimed at black entrepreneurs. Two voices of reason stand out, from @NigelBiggar and Richard Dale (at c. 14:40 and 19:40): https://t.co/x5bIFmwEN7

[Pusey House Library @PuseyHouseLib]

Don't miss our upcoming conference, which will be this Thursday & Friday, on just war and just peace, put on in partnership with @UTAustin and the Chase Center at @OhioState
Full list of speakers and how to get tickets below

[History Reclaimed @History_Reclaim]

Jonathan Sumption reviews Frank Furedi’s new book, 'The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight for Its History'.

"This is an important book, which chronicles more fully than any other work that I know the gradual development of this rage against the past."

Read Jonathan's full review here: https://t.co/yn5EnO611t

#HistoryReclaimed #BookReview #FrankFuredi #TheWareAgainstThePast #WesternHistory

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

William Rothenstein painted 'The Old Gardener,' during the 1930s while at Far Oakridge, his home in Gloucestershire. In his memoirs he described the idyll which existed in the Cotswolds between the wars and made a commitment to painting local people as a record of social history

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

As Malthouse has clarified, the bill promises—among other things—to defund hospices if they decline to provide assisted deaths:

“Should they still be able to deny what is a legal service, if they are in receipt of public funds?”

[Right To Life UK @RightToLifeUK]

🚨BREAKING: Leading Peer calls on Lauren Edwards NOT to bring back assisted suicide Bill, in light of past comments, The Times reports tonight. The MP still has 36 hours to make a final decision on her Bill.

Lord Shinkwin statement in full:

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

Top ten responses so far from Labour MPs:

—Antonia Bance: “Head in hands”
—Ian Byrne: “Grim”
—Ashley Dalton: “Very sad…deeply flawed and unsafe”
—Florence Eshalomi: “Where to even start’”
—Allison Gardner: “An insult to parliament that this bill has been brought back”
—Rupa Huq: “Last thing we need”
—Adam Jogee: “Insane stuff”
—Emma Lewell: “Absolutely dismayed… A deeply flawed and dangerous bill”
—David Smith: “Very sad news indeed… I can’t think of a more divisive issue”
—Kirsteen Sullivan: “I cannot believe we are back here again. With no humility about the concerns raised previously”

[Dr Gordon Caldwell @doctorcaldwell]

@NigelBiggar

[Michelle Styles @MichelleLStyles]

@Marikacobbold @John_J_Wall @National @History_Reclaim @NigelBiggar @AndreRoberts @AndreasKoureas_ @ChurchillCentre https://t.co/OlMNW6QvkM is what Andrew Roberts has to say and well said as well. So furious.

[Dr Gordon Caldwell @doctorcaldwell]

@kitmalthouse The Lords did their work very well last time. Their role is to prevent well motivated but poorly constructed legislation from becoming Law.

@NigelBiggar

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

Fascinating by @NigelBiggar

Brexit, Ten Years On

'And then there was the matter of defence. For entirely understandable reasons, postwar Germany had become virtually pacifist, imagining that international peace and the promotion of human rights could be secured by strengthening commercial ties with the likes of Russia and China—the strategy of so-called ‘Wandel durch Handel’ (‘Change through Trade’). Britain, however, had learned very different—even opposite—lessons from the 1930s and ‘40s: the folly of appeasement and the need to maintain a credible military deterrent. This was not only understandable, given Britain’s role in the Second World War, but, I thought it wiser and more realistic than Germany’s naïve view. So, I did not want Britain’s retention of hard power to be unmanned by Germany’s commitment to soft power. And I noticed that it was concerns along these lines that had moved David Owen, a former Labour Foreign Secretary of intellectual substance, to come out in support of Brexit.'

https://t.co/wuOCvxxEJU

[nigel biggar @NigelBiggar]

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[nigel biggar @NigelBiggar]

Ten years on, I can say this plainly: I voted Remain in 2016, but only just.

I distrusted Brussels bureaucracy, doubted the project of “ever closer union”, resented the EU’s use of free movement as a solvent of national loyalties, and feared Britain’s foreign and defence policy being constrained by Germany’s soft-power illusions.

Why, then, did I still vote to remain, and why would I now vote to stay out?

Read my thoughts at The Biggar Picture: https://t.co/Xpo7DKlKfs

[Sam Akaki -Shakespearean Last-Born of The Empire @AkakiSam]

@robert_lyman Spot on @Craig_Simpson_ They want us to parrot their one-sided narrative that the British did nothing else in Africa except to
#Brutalise people
#Exploit resources
#Colonise minds.
The British set a firm foundation for the economic & social development we now enjoy.
@NigelBiggar

[Sam Akaki -Shakespearean Last-Born of The Empire @AkakiSam]

@FTMidEastAfrica We, Africans, should stop waging war on all fronts against our former colonisers and start working with them to tackle poverty, which is driving millions seeking a better life in the same former colonising countries @EUHomeAffairs @ShabanaMahmood
@NigelBiggar

[David Collier @mishtal]

@ZackPolanski One of them broke the back of a policewoman. They brandished sledgehammers and cause damages of over £1 million to a factory. Of course they belong in jail

What a dangerous and stupid man Zack Polanski is.

[Cllr. Matthew Goodwin-Freeman @MGoodwinFreeman]

@ZackPolanski You're lucky the charge wasn't murder.

A sledgehammer to a police officer is not "protest".

Seriously Zack. Wake up.

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

You literally condoned it in the tweet below Kemi’s, Zack

You said it was “gut wrenching” that these violent thugs had been jailed and said their violence was just part of “protest”

You are so dishonest you try to deny what you clearly wrote

No word of sympathy in your tweet for the injured police officer, I notice

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

This man is asking you to make him prime minister. He wants to have power over policing and laws.

Why would you stop crime - any crime - in Polanski’s Britain if he’s going to side with the criminal?

He wants a lawless Britain where violence against the police is encouraged.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

"Am I not a Man? And a Brother?" 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The most famous image of the fight against slavery was made in a Staffordshire pottery.

Josiah Wedgwood was the most famous potter in England. Born in Burslem in 1730, he turned pottery into an industry: division of labour, costed processes, and a heat gauge for his kilns so good the Royal Society made him a Fellow in 1783.

Then he used all of it for something that mattered.

In 1787 he joined the new Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and commissioned a small jasperware medallion: a kneeling African man in chains, hands raised, and 5 words around the rim.

"Am I not a man and a brother?"

He paid for them himself. He never sold one. He gave away thousands, and shipped a batch across the Atlantic to Benjamin Franklin.

People wore them as brooches, hairpins, and snuff boxes. To wear it was to say, without a word, where you stood. It became the badge of the whole movement.

Arguably the first political logo in history. And every ribbon, wristband and awareness pin since traces back to a potter in Staffordshire who decided to use his kiln for something more than dinner plates.

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He could have stuck to selling china to the rich. He chose to hand a movement its face instead.

This is the revival of British culture. Be part of it.

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Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧