Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 23
May 21, 2023
May 20, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: Also: the map in question would appear to be a gross over simplification, at least in the case of Malawi...
Also: the map in question would appear to be a gross over simplification, at least in the case of Malawi...
RT by @NigelBiggar: Very grateful for this endorsement from @nigelbiggar for my new book GOODBYE, DR BANDA: LESSONS FOR THE WEST FROM A SMALL AFRICAN COUNTRY
Very grateful for this endorsement from @nigelbiggar for my new book GOODBYE, DR BANDA: LESSONS FOR THE WEST FROM A SMALL AFRICAN COUNTRY
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[image error]RT by @NigelBiggar: Thank you for this. The most depressing thing about postcolonial theory is that it tends to diminish rather than amplify the interest of the societies it considers. #Malawi has a rich, extraordinary and important cultural history - and
Thank you for this. The most depressing thing about postcolonial theory is that it tends to diminish rather than amplify the interest of the societies it considers. #Malawi has a rich, extraordinary and important cultural history - and it is absolutely not a culture of victimhood
This is a fine book that provokes thought about the reality, as distinct from the postcolonial theory, of cultural exchange under colonial rule and afterwards.
This is a fine book that provokes thought about the reality, as distinct from the postcolonial theory, of cultural exchange under colonial rule and afterwards.
RT by @NigelBiggar: In fact the Refugee Convention says this about those who come "directly" from a place of danger (ie not France), present themselves immediately, and show good cause for their illegal entry.
If you're going to lecture others, you shoul
In fact the Refugee Convention says this about those who come "directly" from a place of danger (ie not France), present themselves immediately, and show good cause for their illegal entry.
If you're going to lecture others, you should know that.
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[image error]RT by @NigelBiggar: Forty-five heirs to peerages were killed in the first eighteen months of WW1. Perhaps as many as 10% of army officers killed in the first year were Old Etonians. Whatever your view of the war, in those days the ruling class led by examp
Forty-five heirs to peerages were killed in the first eighteen months of WW1. Perhaps as many as 10% of army officers killed in the first year were Old Etonians. Whatever your view of the war, in those days the ruling class led by example, from the front.
[image error]RT by @NigelBiggar: "[I]t is no good paying lip service to rights to free expression in principle, while attempting to frustrate their use in practice. A right which it is not possible for its possessor to exercise is not a right worth the name." Important
"[I]t is no good paying lip service to rights to free expression in principle, while attempting to frustrate their use in practice. A right which it is not possible for its possessor to exercise is not a right worth the name." Important piece in @thetimes.
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RT by @NigelBiggar: Both of you 2 are at the Chalke Valley Fest this year, right? A good lineup all-round.
Both of you 2 are at the Chalke Valley Fest this year, right? A good lineup all-round.
May 19, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: “Why an African leader should be so obsessed with the Classics that he established an English-style school to teach Latin and Greek is the question that opens this remarkable work” — @BijanOmrani praises Goodbye, Dr Banda by @alexanderc
“Why an African leader should be so obsessed with the Classics that he established an English-style school to teach Latin and Greek is the question that opens this remarkable work” — @BijanOmrani praises Goodbye, Dr Banda by @alexanderchula @PolygonBooks thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2…
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