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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Nigel Biggar |Toby Young
Freedom of speech is valuable, but not merely for letting individuals say whatever they fancy within the law. It’s valuable primarily for the sake of the public good. For if dominant orthodoxies are false, misshape public policy, and go unchecked, we all suffer. Free speech allows us to interrogate reigning ideological emperors – on race, transgender, colonialism, public health and climate change, among others – to find out if their new clothes are a reality or a dangerous illusion.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ian O’Doherty |Matt Ridley |Nigel Biggar |Charles Lipson
Ireland is gearing up for its general election this Friday — and what started out as a relatively moribund campaign seems to have finally kicked into gear. The two main bones of contention remain the housing crisis and immigration.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Matt Ridley |Ian O’Doherty |Nigel Biggar |Douglas Murray
The nomination of husky-voiced, musclebound Robert F. Kennedy Jr — who once dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park — to be secretary of health and human services in the Trump administration has horrified “experts,” according to the BBC.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Nigel Biggar |Matt Ridley |Alexander Larman |Paul Wood
Legal reasoning is only as good as the ethical concepts it uses. That’s why the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defense minister is basically flawed.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Nigel Biggar
Turkeys don’t usually vote for Christmas, so just why have 43 new Labour MPs signed up to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Fair Elections and its campaign to replace the first-past-the-post system with proportional representation? These are, after all, the beneficiaries of the most distorted UK election in modern history, where Labour won
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Nigel Biggar
Legal reasoning is only as good as the ethical concepts it uses. That’s why the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister and former defence minister is basically flawed.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Nigel Biggar |Joe Dolce |Stephen Buckle
While ABC chair Kim Williams praises the ABC's purported impartiality, the Education unit keeps right on brainwashing kids Nov 15 2024 11 mins Misogyny and oppressive patriarchy are explanatory fictions that derive from nothing more than a failure to understand the underlying causes of social structures Nov 15 2024 37 mins It's never conservatives who shriek that some ideas are simply too offensive to be aired, let alone debated Nov 15 2024 20 mins Women’s historically unequal social status...
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Nigel Biggar |Rafe Champion |David Barton
While ABC chair Kim Williams praises the ABC's purported impartiality, the Education unit keeps right on brainwashing kidsNov 15 202411 minsIt's never conservatives who shriek that some ideas are simply too offensive to be aired, let alone debatedNov 15 202420 minsA new study establishes once and for all that wind and solar aren't just uneconomic, they are ruinously soNov 14 20242 minsABC Impartiality Standard: Do not unduly favour one perspective over another.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Paul E. Morrissey |James Allan |Tim Blair |Nigel Biggar
The temple to Apollo in Delphi bears the inscription “Know thyself.” Today, as then, There is no higher good than the pursuit of such wisdomNov 14 202419 mins"Amongst many ‘No’ voters there is still a simmering and visceral anger at the elites, most definitely the corporate elites"Nov 13 202411 minsConservative are elected, fix the previous government's legacies, get voted out and the cycle begins againNov 12 20248 minsThe contemporary West has lost its moorings.
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Nov 13, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | Paul E. Morrissey |James Allan |Tim Blair |Nigel Biggar
The temple to Apollo in Delphi bears the inscription “Know thyself.” Today, as then, There is no higher good than the pursuit of such wisdomNov 14 202419 mins"Amongst many ‘No’ voters there is still a simmering and visceral anger at the elites, most definitely the corporate elites"Nov 13 202411 minsConservative are elected, fix the previous government's legacies, get voted out and the cycle begins againNov 12 20248 minsThe contemporary West has lost its moorings.
