Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 22
May 23, 2023
RT @coccaloca: @jordanbpeterson , .@NigelBiggar mentality & approach to life is the reason why I moved to the UK so many years ago. To me…
RT @coccaloca: @jordanbpeterson , .@NigelBiggar mentality & approach to life is the reason why I moved to the UK so many years ago. To me…
RT by @NigelBiggar: A beautiful and thought provoking read!
A beautiful and thought provoking read!
May 22, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: @jordanbpeterson Great interview you did with @NigelBiggar on the New Imperial age. So many lies espoused by anti-imperialist academics since WW2. This is one of the lies that they don't want anyone to know about:
https://open.substa
@jordanbpeterson Great interview you did with @NigelBiggar on the New Imperial age. So many lies espoused by anti-imperialist academics since WW2. This is one of the lies that they don't want anyone to know about:
open.substack.com/pub/thenew…
RT by @NigelBiggar: Absolutely loved your position on the podcast with @jordanbpeterson
Looking forward to following your tweets in the future. Keep up the excellent work.
Absolutely loved your position on the podcast with @jordanbpeterson
Looking forward to following your tweets in the future. Keep up the excellent work.
RT by @NigelBiggar: …When you look upon exemplars of the moral positions you hold, those who have risked all for justice, or for the truth, there’s a beauty about them that is fascinating and that draws you to them.” - @NigelBiggar
…When you look upon exemplars of the moral positions you hold, those who have risked all for justice, or for the truth, there’s a beauty about them that is fascinating and that draws you to them.” - @NigelBiggar
RT by @NigelBiggar: . @NigelBiggar has made a great contribution to the debate about empires by considering the moral dimension. It will continue to be shouted down by those unwilling to hear or learn but that does not devalue the scholarship.
. @NigelBiggar has made a great contribution to the debate about empires by considering the moral dimension. It will continue to be shouted down by those unwilling to hear or learn but that does not devalue the scholarship.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Your "History & Heritage" panel was the pick of the conference in my view.
Your "History & Heritage" panel was the pick of the conference in my view.
RT by @NigelBiggar: @BruceDGilley @NigelBiggar This is Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901-1937) who is held up as a Malagasy anti-colonial hero. The problem is that he was treated with contempt by indigenous elites for favouring French assimilationist ideas.
@BruceDGilley @NigelBiggar This is Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901-1937) who is held up as a Malagasy anti-colonial hero. The problem is that he was treated with contempt by indigenous elites for favouring French assimilationist ideas.
May 21, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: Nonsense. Entirely right that politicians give journalists a little of the scrutiny that newspapers and broadcasters are happy to dish out but rarely face themselves. Three top faults: Our press obsesses about personal rather than polic
Nonsense. Entirely right that politicians give journalists a little of the scrutiny that newspapers and broadcasters are happy to dish out but rarely face themselves. Three top faults: Our press obsesses about personal rather than policy failure, what MPs say over what they do, and in breaking news over underlying mega trends
RT by @NigelBiggar: I have a new piece in the @spectator today: where I wonder why almost no historians called New World adventurism "genocide" prior to about 2010, and if the rush to label it "genocide" since then has been based on peer pressure rather
I have a new piece in the @spectator today: where I wonder why almost no historians called New World adventurism "genocide" prior to about 2010, and if the rush to label it "genocide" since then has been based on peer pressure rather than facts or logic. spectator.co.uk/article/the-…
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