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Showing posts with label Colin Ward. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Colin Ward. Show all posts

Thursday, August 15, 2024

The Joy of Six 1258

"The middle-income professionals in the seats we have just won will take a lot of persuading to pay more for better prisons, probation ...

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Two quotations in defence of Baden Powell

Embed from Getty Images This is an extract from a blog post - The generation gap and reinventing bob-a-job week - that I wrote back in...

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Living the town and country life

"We live the town and country life," went the song in an old television commercial for the Town and Country Building Society. That...

Thursday, March 24, 2011

GUEST POST A beginner's guide to anarchism

Ruth Kinna is the author of A Beginner's Guide to Anarchism (Oneworld Publications, 2009). Anarchism is often said to have a sporadi...

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Colin Ward on the state

Writing on Crooked Timber , Maria cites a favorite quotation of Colin Ward . It comes from the German anarchist Gustav Landauer: The State i...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Colin Ward 1924-2010

I was sad to hear of the death of the anarchist thinker Colin Ward. As I said last year , he managed to "make anarchism sound a) common...

Monday, August 10, 2009

National Allotment Week and Prince Kropotkin

Birkdale Focus has a superb post by Iain Brodie Brown that starts by noting that this is National Allotment Week, goes on to quote Peter Kr...

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