Nigel Biggar is an Anglican priest and theologian who was–until his retirement in 2022–the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford.
He’s recently made headlines with his book (which I’m currently in the middle of reading), Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. It’s a (rare in this day and age) remarkably even-handed and discursive analysis of the phenomenon which has–so far–managed to avoid the worst of cancel culture** whilst still managing to offend exactly the right people. (Reviews from the Grauniad, and similarly left-wing publications and individual ideologues bear this out.)
As a daughter of (the African equivalent of) the Raj myself, I commend it. I know what I know. And apparently, Nigel Biggar–who, like the best of us can apparently walk and chew gum at the same time–does too:
**The book was originally accepted for publication by Bloomsbury, which eventually chose not to publish it because “public feeling on the subject does not currently support the publication of the book.” (LOL. I wonder if they took an actual poll, or just asked a few university professors what they thought…) Eventually, HarperCollins stepped up, and to prove it, I have an actual hardback copy of my own.
