Lord Nigel Biggar had the audacity to defend the British empire, and the Left’s cancel culture against him revealed a “repressive” desire to silence “anyone who disagrees” with its narrative.
“I’ve noticed it’s not just that we have points of view that disagree with me on colonialism or race or gender or whatever—that’s acceptable in a liberal society,” Biggar tells The Daily Signal. “It’s not sufficient for people to express the fact they disagree with me. They want to shut me down. So, there’s a repressive element to these progressive ideologies.”
Biggar, an Anglican priest who taught at Oxford University and led a project examining colonialism, recalled how students loudly protested his project. While he did not insist that everything the British Empire did was morally justified, he dismantled much of the anti-colonialist narrative that…
