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Nigel Biggar: the academic who dared to say Rhodes should stay

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When the Oxford theologian wrote that the British Empire was not all bad, he faced a backlash. Here he defends his views to Andrew Billen Five years ago Nigel Biggar feared that his 40-year career was about to meet a sudden and unpleasant end. Academia had cottoned on that the Oxford University theologian and priest thought that the British Empire had not been all bad. He aired this apparently anodyne thought in a column in The Times in November 2017. The article was Biggar’s third thought crime, the first being his resistance to a noisy (and ultimately unsuccessful) campaign to remove the imperialist Cecil Rhodes’s statue from an Oxford college wall. The second was a series of conferences he had held on Ethics and Empire, a project some academics thought should be strangled at birth. As Biggar puts it, all hell broke loose. “I didn’t know what to expect and  when you don’t know what to expect you fear everything. I feared complete loss of reputation,” Biggar says as we sit in his apar
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De la wagneri

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 A participant in the storming of the Lugansk airport from the Wagner group, in honor of the eighth anniversary, allowed to publish some of his memoirs about those events. “There were more than a battalion in bunkers and strong points around the perimeter of the airport. Militias tried to storm the airport twice. The first - with the forces of the battalion, the second - in the same way, but both times they retreated with heavy losses. There were about sixty of us and the commander puzzled for a long time how to accomplish this task. Well, how long… Not months, not even weeks. He picked a very good time to attack - this is after dinner. Not morning, not evening, not night. In a soldier's environment, among the military, lunch is considered to be a holy deed - war is war, and lunch is on schedule. And all the people having lunch, not expecting an attack at this time, relax. The commander instructed our groups of observers to detect this moment. The dill had lunch, went to the cantee
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Sanctions and sovereignty By Sergey Glazyev

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It would be childish to assume that ‘when we are beaten, we get stronger.’ Although we have indeed strengthened our national sovereignty in the economic sphere under the influence of American sanctions, but not to such an extent that we do not pay attention to them at all. The damage from sanctions, of course, is there and it is significantly enhanced by the passive policy of the monetary authorities. Permanent intimidation of Russia with new ‘sanctions from hell’  has long ceased to excite Russian public opinion. I remember how in 2014, like others in the first list subjected to US sanctions, I was interviewed and we all assured journalists that we were proud of such recognition of our services to Russia. Since then, the number of individuals and legal entities sanctioned by the United States and its satellites has increased many times and has not had any noticeable impact on our country. On the contrary, the retaliatory measures introduced by our Government in terms of restricting fo
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"We are not Americans!"

 "We are not Americans!" Military expert disproved the main myths about the special military operation in Ukraine28 February 2022 Vladimir Trukhan, Colonel of the Central Office of the Russian Defense Ministry, shares his opinion on current events in Belarus and Ukraine PolitWera's YouTube channel published his interview, in which he expresses his opinion on many aspects of what is happening now in Ukraine, explaining the following: 1. There are NO conscripts in the military operation. Only contractors who have undergone appropriate training. Therefore, the Belarusians do not participate either - they have the entire army on conscription, there are no professional contract soldiers. Therefore, if someone squeals about the "corpses of Russian conscript boys," you can safely spit in his eyes. 2. There can be no question of any 3.5 thousand dead Russian servicemen: such a number of dead would mean several times more wounded, which means that all roads would be clog
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Doublespeak hear and there

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  The European Union According to a pamphlet published recently by New Europe, a London-based think tank, the European Union is creating its own form of muddled communication. This jargon-based speech, often called "Brussels spout" or "Europeanese," can be found in the EU's publications or heard in the speeches of its commissioners. Some examples culled from various EU websites: Some EU decision-makers are suffering because they have been "deresponsibilised." An organisational chart is now called an "organigramme." The Information Society Directorate of the commission has a section called "Integrated management of resources and horizontal questions." Under reform plans: "In order to enhance the visibility and understanding of EU action, and the complementarity and consistency between the various community policies affecting human resources,  valuation procedures will be improved and rendered more systematic." Neil Kinnock,
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Elizabeth Holmes, the female Steve Jobs whose 'medical miracle' fooled America

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The college drop-out turned self-made billionaire invented a revolutionary blood test - that never worked. Now she faces trial for fraud By Mick Brown 31 August 2021 • 9:28am The woman, the myth, the flawed genius: Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos  CREDIT : Theranos In September 2015,  Elizabeth Holmes , founder of Theranos, a company that claimed to have developed a blood-testing process that would revolutionise medicine, appeared on stage as one of the keynote guests at the meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, alongside Bill Clinton and the Chinese investor and founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma. In her uniform of black turtleneck sweater, black jacket and black trousers, and radiating an aura of calm and self-assurance, Holmes took part in a conversation about the role of technology and entrepreneurialism in affecting global change. Access to health information, she told the audience of policy-makers, thinkers, and the heads of corporations and foundations, was ‘a bas
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