Nigel Biggar

Nigel Biggar, CBE, is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and author of 'Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt'.

Articles

Ideas

Britain faces an £18 trillion reparations shakedown

‘Decolonisation’ threatens to become expensive. Earlier this month the African Union joined the Caribbean Community (‘Caricom’) in demanding reparations from Britain for its ‘colonial crimes’, especially slavery. Caricom has already submitted its bill of £18 trillion. The African continent’s claim is bound to be higher. Indeed, ‘decolonisation’ has already become expensive for members of the […]

World

Are museums racist?

Who can possibly object to the restitution of objects to their lawful owners? No one doubts that after the Second World War Germany was right to restore stolen property to Jewish families or compensate them for its loss. In those circumstances, the identities of the Jewish wronged and the Nazi wrongdoers, and the relationships between […]