Nigel Biggar: Was the British Empire Good?
Nigel Biggar
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9 January 2024
15 September 2025
When we accuse a country of being a "coloniser", it's meant as a bad thing. But what if colonialism is okay? What if the British Empire was, on balance... good? That's the position of @NigelBiggar, a Professor Emeritus at Oxford University whose new book, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning", is making heads explode all over Britain. Join Josh as he tries to wrestle with the ethics of the Raj, Indigenous rights, racism, and one of the greatest crimes or greatest virtues? in political history. UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS PODCAST FEED: Apple: https://apple.co/327Ydka Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3T9KGAh JOSH'S PREMIUM PODCAST FEED ON SUBSTACK: https://uncomfortableconversations.substack.com/subscribe JOSH'S SOCIALS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshzepps Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshszeps/ JOIN JOSH'S MAILING LIST: https://www.joshszeps.com/mailing-list
