If you think your gifts entitle you to a better deal then ask yourself who gave you those gifts. It was certainly not yourself.
A poetic reflection on our times.
It seems like a new form of aristocratic rule has evolved within the welfare state itself.
Progress is not inevitable. Elites can maintain their grip on power for centuries.
If we want citizenship to be real - for everyone - then we must transform how our society works.
The size of the welfare state is a poor measure of its value.
Sometimes critics of the welfare state seem to be against the welfare state, but it often turns out that they are really offering different visions of the welfare state.
The idea of citizenship does not belong to any one political theory. If taken seriously it would temper the extreme and anti-democratic nature of all the main political theories.
Passport-Citizenship is a corruption of citizenship - it empties citizenship of its real value. Citizenship is a critical moral ideal and is essential to the development of a fair society.