Honest Common Sense

I listened with interest to the first two videos[1][2] in the recent series “Chris Tame from Beyond the Grave,” in which Chris discusses imm...

Part 3 It is plain that something is seriously wrong with the societies we live in today. Welfare is only one part of a bigger problem. Wha...

A Brief History of England From 871 to the Present (To be sung, by those with stamina, to “While shepherds watched their flocks by night”) B...

Part 2 Even a decade ago, I used to ask myself serious questions about the welfare state. One, why hasn't it ended poverty? It's ha...

(From the archives - September 26th, 2006. This is another three-parter) Part 1 In 1942, in the depths of war, William Beveridge authored ...

This essay began as a comment on Keith Preston’s “The New Anarchist Movement is Growing,” published here[1]. Soon, though, as I explored som...

I thought it might be good to offer something a little bit up-beat for a change. I’ve been contemplating the so called “labour theory of v...