Two Cities Political Studies Dinner with Lord Biggar

Name: Two Cities Political Studies Dinner with Lord Biggar
Start: 2026-09-15

Date

Tuesday, 15th September 2026

Time

6.30 for 7 pm

"Free speech: why does it matter and what’s the problem?"

Two Cities Political Studies Dinner with Lord Biggar

We are delighted to welcome the renowned Regius Professor of Moral Theology at Oxford University, Anglican priest, theologian, ethicist and life peer Lord Nigel Biggar to join us as our Guest of Honour at our 2026 Political Studies Dinner.

The dinner will be held at a private members' club in St James's in central London, with a pre-dinner drinks reception starting at 6:30 pm, and then sitting down to dinner at 7 pm, prompt.

Young Conservatives (under 26): £ 95
Standard tickets (CLWCA/CA members): £ 120
Non-Member tickets: £ 130 (for people who are not a current member of CLWCA) - Join us and save £ 10!
Premium tickets: £ 300 (limited availability)

Our Political Studies Dinner is organised by the Marylebone Branch of the Cities of London & Westminster Conservative Association.

For security reasons, venue details will be shared with guests 24 hours beforehand. If you have any questions about the dinner, please get in touch.

The private members' club has a dress code that attendees must follow. Gentlemen must wear a jacket, collar, and tie, but no cravats. Ladies are expected to wear commensurate business or formal day wear.

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About Lord Biggar

Nigel Biggar is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas, Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford, and Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Pusey House, Oxford. He chairs the Free Speech Union, UK, and for fourteen years was a member of the Committee on Ethical Issues of the Royal College of Physicians. He is a priest in the Church of England. He holds the degrees of B.A. in Modern History from the University of Oxford, Master of Christian Studies from Regent College, Vancouver, and M.A. in Religious Studies and Ph.D. in Christian Theology & Ethics from the University of Chicago. He has held professorships at the University of Leeds and Trinity College Dublin.

Described as “one of the leading living Western ethicists” (John Gray, New Statesman, 25 November 2020), Biggar 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.

Among his books are Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023, 2024), What’s Wrong with Rights? (2020), Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation (2014), In Defence of War (2013), and Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict (2003).

In the press, he has written on the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Spectator (London), colonialism in the National Post (Toronto), freedom of speech in the Times (London), the ‘Culture Wars’ and illegal migration in the Daily Telegraph (London), the Iraq War in the Financial Times (London) and the Straits Times (Singapore), the possibility of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Northern Ireland in the Irish Times (Dublin), Scottish independence in the Times (Scotland), and why Australia should remain a monarchical republic in The Australian (Sydney).

He has lectured at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London; the UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham; the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg; the US Military Academy, West Point; the US Naval Academy, Annapolis; and the National Defense University, Washington, DC.

His hobbies include walking over battlefields. In 1973, he drove a Morris Traveller from Scotland to Afghanistan; and in 2015 and 2017 he trekked across the mountains of central Crete in the footsteps of Patrick Leigh-Fermor and his comrades, when they abducted General Kreipe in April-May 1944. He enjoys playing an anarchical card-game.

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