Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 3
June 24, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: Putin as Nicholas II? "In 1917, angry soldiers came home from World War I and launched ... a revolution. Putin alluded to that moment in his brief television appearance on Saturday morning," writes @anneapplebaum: https://www.theatlant
Putin as Nicholas II? "In 1917, angry soldiers came home from World War I and launched ... a revolution. Putin alluded to that moment in his brief television appearance on Saturday morning," writes @anneapplebaum: theatlantic.com/internationa…
RT by @NigelBiggar: Two pupils have written to the Education Secretary warning of a culture of fear in schools, where students are "too frightened" to say there are only two sexes due to the threat of bullying from peers who adopt "the authoritarian dogma
Two pupils have written to the Education Secretary warning of a culture of fear in schools, where students are "too frightened" to say there are only two sexes due to the threat of bullying from peers who adopt "the authoritarian dogma of gender ideology".
telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06…
RT by @NigelBiggar: PUTIN: Should I pursue this campaign against Ukraine?
ORACLE OF DELPHI: Should you send an army against the Ukrainians, a Russian army will capture the capital city in three days.
PUTIN: haha nice
PUTIN: Should I pursue this campaign against Ukraine?
ORACLE OF DELPHI: Should you send an army against the Ukrainians, a Russian army will capture the capital city in three days.
PUTIN: haha nice
June 23, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: Firenze at night.
Firenze at night.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Canada renames the major road in its national capital from the founder of the country to an Indian war path used by natives to attack rivals.
Canada renames the major road in its national capital from the founder of the country to an Indian war path used by natives to attack rivals.
RT by @NigelBiggar: The last survivors of Waterloo in Chelsea Hospital, June 1880.
The last survivors of Waterloo in Chelsea Hospital, June 1880.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Beware keyboard warriors like Nicolson spreading misinformation.
I’ve asked Ofsted to investigate a potential breach of the Equality Act. A recording appears to be of a teacher forcing dubious contested beliefs on a child and then cal
Beware keyboard warriors like Nicolson spreading misinformation.
I’ve asked Ofsted to investigate a potential breach of the Equality Act. A recording appears to be of a teacher forcing dubious contested beliefs on a child and then calling her ‘despicable’ for disagreeing. (1/2)
RT by @NigelBiggar: What inspired human beings to build places like this?
What inspired human beings to build places like this?
RT by @NigelBiggar: A good thing about working on free speech and the academy is that the opposing arguments are so weak. Even (especially?) when emanating from All Souls. A bad thing, however, is that they are often published in LRB & therefore woefully d
A good thing about working on free speech and the academy is that the opposing arguments are so weak. Even (especially?) when emanating from All Souls. A bad thing, however, is that they are often published in LRB & therefore woefully drawn out over thousands of redundant words.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Well done Francis Pike. Excellent reminder that not all colonial violence was designed to ‘keep the natives down’, but rather to free them from the threat of a worse tyranny.
Britain’s war in Malaya https://www.spectator.co.uk/article
Well done Francis Pike. Excellent reminder that not all colonial violence was designed to ‘keep the natives down’, but rather to free them from the threat of a worse tyranny.
Britain’s war in Malaya spectator.co.uk/article/brit…
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