Articles By Nigel Biggar
March 2017
After Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, defeatists say the UK should never again intervene militarily abroad. The PM knows they are wrong
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March 2016
The Rhodes Must Fall campaign which divided Oxford was built on a misunderstanding of the past and a manipulation of the truth
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September 2015
Unionists fear that the SNP represents all Scots and that a break-up of the United Kingdom is now inevitable. They don’t and it isn’t
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September 2014
Karen Armstrong's Fields of Blood offers a magisterial debunking of the secularist tale
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May 2014
The claimed benefits are doubtful and the risks for all Britons are considerable. Only a fool would vote for Salmond's wild adventure
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December 2013
Did Gordon Brown’s aide receive moral formation at Peterhouse, Cambridge? If not, why not?
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September 2013
Despite the fearful losses we should not shrink from celebrating our forebears’ decision to resist German aggression 100 years ago
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June 2013
That materialists and ministers struggle to justify morality shows there is still a place for Christianity in intellectual and public life
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April 2011
An “established” Church of England affronts both secularists and Anglicans. But it offers the best protection for humanist liberalism
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July/August 2010
The calls for Higher Education to switch focus to vocational training neglect the fact that academics in the arts and humanities have a responsibility for the moral formation of their students
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March 2010
Campaigners to legalise assisted suicide invoke the principle of arbitrary autonomy. This threatens to give us a radically libertarian society at the expense of a humane one
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About Nigel Biggar
Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, and author of In Defence of War, published by OUP.
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