Nigel Biggar on the ‘Soft Centre’: Moderates Have Allowed Free Speech to Erode
Theologian Nigel Biggar is touring Australia.
People participate in a "Demand Free Speech" rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington on July 6, 2019. The demonstrators are calling for an end to censorship by social media companies. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
Nigel Biggar, an Anglican minister, theologian, and ethicist, touched down in the colonies recently to lecture us on the wonders of free speech and colonisation.
In an interview with The Epoch Times, he was asked to pin down that slippery concept known as “hate speech.”
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Nicole James is a freelance journalist for The Epoch Times based in Australia. She is an award-winning short story writer, journalist, columnist, and editor. Her work has appeared in newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Sunday Times, and the Sunday Telegraph. She holds a BA Communications majoring in journalism and two post graduate degrees, one in creative writing.
