The Making of a Beggar: Rejecting Personal Responsibility - Hardcover

by Nick Buckley (Author)

Nick Buckley explores the relationship between "givers" and "takers," and the damaging symbiotic relationship between them. He examines the motivation of disheveled individuals sitting on street corners holding out paper cups, as well as the intergenerational problem of poverty and welfare dependency. Different types of beggars are highlighted, such as politicians begging for votes, charities begging for donations, and even the woke begging for validation and attention. Buckley shows that begging is a complicated topic, part nature and part nurture, and that many engage in such behavior unknowingly. Unlike most authors on this topic, Buckley explores his own history of begging from being raised in a workless household on benefits, to claiming unemployment benefits as an adult, and the journey that eventually led him to found an award-winning charity. With this important book, Buckley offers us an antidote to such unbecoming behavior: personal responsibility.

Author Biography

Nick Buckley MBE is the founder of The Mancunian Way, a charity that fired him in 2020 after he published an article critical of Black Lives Matter. Following a public outcry, however, Mancunian Way's board of trustees resigned and Nick Buckley was reinstated. He is the author of Lessons in Courage: How I Fought Back Against Cancel Culture and Won.