Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Christ Church. He is best known for his work on the ethics of empire, notably his book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.
Robert Tombs is Emeritus Professor of French History at Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John’s College. He is the author of The English and Their History and co-editor of the pro-Brexit academic website Briefings for Britain.
Tomorrow, they are coming on the show together to discuss their upcoming book “Our Island’s Story,” and to make the case for a more historically honest and hopeful account of Britain’s past - one that pushes back against narratives that reduce the country’s history, and particularly its colonial history, to a story of systemic racism and oppression.
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What's the strongest argument you have heard, that does not invoke religion, in favor of human life having inherent value?
Hi guys. British Australia here. I met Nigel at ARC and we had a lovely conversation.
My question is regarding Australia but can easily translate to other Western countries and former British colonies. When I learn about the stolen generations of Aboriginal peoples, things like the Aborigines Protection Amending Act of 1915 explicitly target people for their race saying children can be removed from their homes without court orders if they are black. I can’t see any way of justifying that morally (although this could be my own historical ignorance, that I can’t outargue the ‘woke’ professors in this regard), however the objections to this shade gradually into the Australian civil rights movement and eventually into the far left Aboriginal politics of the 21st century. Where exactly is the line between condemning bad treatment of the Aboriginal population and the justified parts of the reparations movement against the parts that are far left and we need to distance ourselves from both historically and contemporarily?