It’s Christmas time again, and it seemed a perfect time to discuss the role of gifting within society. Nearly every child who celebrates Christmas will, at some point in their childhood, say something to the effect that “I wish it could be Christmas all the time!” and without fail, this [...]

Some of you may know that there is an atheist concept known as ‘Last Thursdayism’ - an idea intended to mock and satirise creationists who claim that the world was created 6,000 years ago with the appearance of it being billions of years old. According to this logic, the idea goes, [...]

Today, while browsing around various debate sites, this article (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100127395/crony-capitalism-is-failing-lets-try-the-real-thing/) was brought to my attention by yet another right-winger trying to persuade me of the supposed virtues of ‘real’ or ‘free market’ capitalism. This was just one of many similar encounters I’ve had recently, in which the system we currently [...]

To attempt to paint a full picture of the entire history of socialism in these article would be almost impossible. What I will try to do is summarise the main historical developments. Here, I will start with ‘classic’ socialism, and the advent of the first main socialist philosophers and economists, [...]

One of the most annoying things many radical socialists face in debates is a misunderstanding of what the term ‘socialism’ means. Moreover, this is increased by the right-wing media declaring things to be ‘socialism’, when in reality, they are nothing of the sort, and the right are just using ‘socialism’ [...]