Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 8
June 12, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: NEW:
79% of Republican students in Princeton survey say administrators or academics try to indoctrinate them, and 79% would be uncomfortable disagreeing with the political views of profs and the university in a class assignment:
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NEW:
79% of Republican students in Princeton survey say administrators or academics try to indoctrinate them, and 79% would be uncomfortable disagreeing with the political views of profs and the university in a class assignment:
infogram.com/princetons-free…
RT by @NigelBiggar: Delighted with this endorsement of my new book It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth by Katharine Birbalsingh, famously dubbed "Britain's strictest headmistress" and ex-chair of the UK government's Social Mobility Commission.
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Delighted with this endorsement of my new book It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth by Katharine Birbalsingh, famously dubbed "Britain's strictest headmistress" and ex-chair of the UK government's Social Mobility Commission.
Thanks @Miss_Snuffy!
RT by @NigelBiggar: Important thread: the analysis is, sadly, correct. The British Army simply isn’t structured to ‘warfight.’ We urgently need to return to the basics, which involves having deployable, sustainable fighting brigades
Important thread: the analysis is, sadly, correct. The British Army simply isn’t structured to ‘warfight.’ We urgently need to return to the basics, which involves having deployable, sustainable fighting brigades
RT by @NigelBiggar: "If young black lives truly mattered to social-justice warriors in Britain, they would explore the impact of the ‘fatherlessness epidemic’ in London’s inner-city communities."
My book Beyond Grievance is out this Wednesday.
To pre-or
"If young black lives truly mattered to social-justice warriors in Britain, they would explore the impact of the ‘fatherlessness epidemic’ in London’s inner-city communities."
My book Beyond Grievance is out this Wednesday.
To pre-order on Amazon:
amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Grievanc…
June 11, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: I enjoyed greatly this intriguing webinar https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/webina... by @NigelBiggar for @History_Reclaim
I enjoyed greatly this intriguing webinar historyreclaimed.co.uk/webin… by @NigelBiggar for @History_Reclaim
June 10, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: “Only corn will be growing” The shocking 1942 war crime site of Lidice, near Prague, occurred #OnThisDay 10 June 1942. All the men were shot, the village razed, and the women and children sent off to the death camps #NeverForget #OTD #L
“Only corn will be growing” The shocking 1942 war crime site of Lidice, near Prague, occurred #OnThisDay 10 June 1942. All the men were shot, the village razed, and the women and children sent off to the death camps #NeverForget #OTD #Lidice #OperationAnthropoid #SOE #History 🇨🇿
RT by @NigelBiggar: Such a pleasure to sit down with thirty Hungarian high-schoolers & Dr Eric Hendriks, today, to think about Nietzsche & Christianity, Romanticism & the future of Europe.
Below: Caspar David Friedrich, "The Monk by the Sea", ca 1810.
@H
Such a pleasure to sit down with thirty Hungarian high-schoolers & Dr Eric Hendriks, today, to think about Nietzsche & Christianity, Romanticism & the future of Europe.
Below: Caspar David Friedrich, "The Monk by the Sea", ca 1810.
@HendrKim @MCC_Budapest @InstituteDanube
RT by @NigelBiggar: The heating at St Bartholomew the Less is regulated by the Hospital and is still on and I am ABOUT TO DIE
The heating at St Bartholomew the Less is regulated by the Hospital and is still on and I am ABOUT TO DIE
RT by @NigelBiggar: Shall we not be chuffed when this era of assumption, presumption, perception and ignorance is behind us.
Shall we not be chuffed when this era of assumption, presumption, perception and ignorance is behind us.
RT by @NigelBiggar: “Honor to those who in the life they lead
define and guard a Therrnopylae.
Never betraying what is right,
consistent and just in all they do.”
– Manuscript of Cavafy’s poem “Thermopylae”. Cavafy Archive.
#poetry #cavafy
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