Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 19

RT by @NigelBiggar: Estimated net migration into Britain 1901-2023

Estimated net migration into Britain 1901-2023

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RT by @NigelBiggar: "Viewers were fed a piece so unbalanced as to potentially reach the point of prejudice." 54 cross-party peers have written to Ofcom claiming Channel 4 is ‘complicit’ in attacks on Baroness Falkner after an "attempted coup by trans-activ

"Viewers were fed a piece so unbalanced as to potentially reach the point of prejudice." 54 cross-party peers have written to Ofcom claiming Channel 4 is ‘complicit’ in attacks on Baroness Falkner after an "attempted coup by trans-activist civil servants".
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…

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RT by @NigelBiggar: A Gentle Morning Path. 16°C and more blue skies. Hares in the barley.

A Gentle Morning Path. 16°C and more blue skies. Hares in the barley.

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RT by @NigelBiggar: It's tiny (in terms of people killed) but read Bill Slim's chapter "Aid to the Civil Power" in his Unofficial History. A different time, a different country, a totally different mindset to present day UK.

It's tiny (in terms of people killed) but read Bill Slim's chapter "Aid to the Civil Power" in his Unofficial History. A different time, a different country, a totally different mindset to present day UK.

RT by @NigelBiggar: Listened to it twice. Excellent stuff. He certainly has a reckoning with some other 'historians'. There's some good new insights on Imperial history. The destruction of Edo being a prime example for me.

Listened to it twice. Excellent stuff. He certainly has a reckoning with some other 'historians'.
There's some good new insights on Imperial history. The destruction of Edo being a prime example for me.

RT by @NigelBiggar: Yes, they did: it was a terrible time for the Indian Army, which had grown to consider itself a mirror of a new India, to see that India crumbling in bloody violence around it. Fascinatingly, for the most part, the Indian Army was never

Yes, they did: it was a terrible time for the Indian Army, which had grown to consider itself a mirror of a new India, to see that India crumbling in bloody violence around it. Fascinatingly, for the most part, the Indian Army was never reduced to binary bigotry

RT by @NigelBiggar: True: lots of culprits, but biggest bugbear for me is Indian failure to accept responsibility for the violent exceptionalism in parts of multi-faith India, a harmony that was actually perfectly achieved in the Indian Army. India needed

True: lots of culprits, but biggest bugbear for me is Indian failure to accept responsibility for the violent exceptionalism in parts of multi-faith India, a harmony that was actually perfectly achieved in the Indian Army. India needed more unifying imperatives, not fewer

RT by @NigelBiggar: The Indian Army was never in a position to halt communal violence when those who desired it went on the rampage. Clear culprits were the communal bigots & firebrands who preached endless racial/religious exceptionalism, violent words le

The Indian Army was never in a position to halt communal violence when those who desired it went on the rampage. Clear culprits were the communal bigots & firebrands who preached endless racial/religious exceptionalism, violent words leading to ultimately to slaughter.

RT by @NigelBiggar: This is only partly true. India had the means - political & structural - to govern itself. This had long been a British deceit (that it couldn’t). By blaming British haste we ignore the active steps by some Indian politicians to create

This is only partly true. India had the means - political & structural - to govern itself. This had long been a British deceit (that it couldn’t). By blaming British haste we ignore the active steps by some Indian politicians to create a different polity to that they inherited

RT by @NigelBiggar: I don't blame Mountbatten for partition, but I was putting myself in his shoes. He was in a difficult spot, a power broker, but with no control over the Indian armed forces.

I don't blame Mountbatten for partition, but I was putting myself in his shoes. He was in a difficult spot, a power broker, but with no control over the Indian armed forces.