Reparations by Nigel Biggar

Reparations by Nigel Biggar

A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025

'Compelling and timely' Tirthankar Roy

'Essential reading' David Eltis

Many now claim that Western countries should pay reparations to former colonies for the lasting damage they caused, especially through slavery. Why is this claim being made now? How far does it make sense? And, more generally, how can historic wrongs be righted?

Reparations removes the sloganeering from a newly-fashionable cause, sets the issue in its proper historical context, and mounts an ethical counter-argument. The natural sequel to Nigel Biggar's bestselling and widely acclaimed Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, it makes a powerful contribution to an increasingly prominent public debate.

Praise for Colonialism:

‘A fascinating read, informative, surprising and written with panache and clarity’ - The Times

‘Carries the intellectual force of a Javeline antitank missileColonialism is no apologia for empire… but calls for balance…Biggar acknowledges wickedness in our nation but his version of history calls us to accept the messiness and moral compromises inherent in liberalism’ - Sunday Times

‘The book on the morality of the British Empire, a kind of Encyclopaedia Pacis Britannicae…. a thoughtful, compelling text’ - Sunday Telegraph

‘An important, timely and brave book…the first serious counter blast against the hysterical and ahistorical orthodoxy that has placed such a stranglehold on our public discourse on the British Empire, and as such will prove to be an indispensable handbook in the battles to come. It is also exceedingly well written and compellingly argued’ - The Critic

Nigel Biggar, CBE is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford. Described as ‘one of the leading living Western ethicists’ (John Gray, New Statesman), he was appointed Commander of the British Empire for services to higher education in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list and named one of Prospect magazine’s Top Thinkers of 2024. In January 2025 he entered the House of Lords as a Conservative peer. He is the author of the bestselling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.

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ISBN 13	9781800755598
ISBN 10	1800755597
Title	Reparations
Author	Nigel Biggar
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Swift Press
Year published	2025-09-25
Number of pages	224
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