Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning Nigel Biggar, London: William Collins, 2023, 480pps., $34.99 Ideologues are frequently performative, but sometimes they are simply pantomimic. One of today’s major stock villains is the British Empire – seen in melodramatic minds as a swaggering dastard, slashing through global history like Captain Hook in murderous search of Peter Pan and… Continue reading
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Corona Humours VIII – O how the mighty are falling!
In 2 Samuel, King David laments the deaths of Saul and Jonathan: The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places; how are the mighty fallen! The chapter came to mind as I saw the reports about the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, the removal of Robert Milligan from the West… Continue reading