Reparations should be required reading for all members of the Church Commissioners who wish to retain any reputation for competence, integrity, and acknowledging reliable scholarship before they dispose of £100 million of their assets – legally devoted to supporting parish ministry – for “reparations” for the slave trade.
Lord Biggar, the author of Colonialism, takes apart limb by limb the arguments put forward by a campaign for making such reparations, sponsored by an Irish billionaire, to combat alleged racism, that began following Black Lives Matter in 2014 and the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
In 160 pages, with 33 pages of notes and 16 pages of bibliography, Nigel Biggar, Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology at Oxford, makes a closely argued and evidenced case based on extensive reading of current reports and scholarly works on the issue.
