More Isles of the Left
How Can the Left Win?
The left should stop focusing on what is wrong in our system and start focusing on a vision of the future that is positive, hopeful and even fun. The left has so many things to offer that people want, such as free healthcare, free education, research and innovation to improve people’s lives and reduce their labour hours and enhance work-life balance.
A Culture of Concealment and Non-Declaration: is the Car Park Attendant an Anomaly?
The parkers are our modern working class entrepreneurs. The parkers, like the developers, landlords and ministers understand the market too well. The parkers managed to carve out their own jobs just at the right time in a neo-patronage system. [Read more…] about A Culture of Concealment and Non-Declaration: is the Car Park Attendant an Anomaly?
How Dockyard Workers Stood Up for Peace
On the 23rd June 1988, Dockyard workers blocked access to the Grand Harbour, so as not to allow in the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. The Ark Royal had to divert its route and enter Saint Paul’s Bay. [Read more…] about How Dockyard Workers Stood Up for Peace
If You Wish to Make Malta a Better Place, Don’t Whine—Act on the Causes!
Without a clear understanding of what underpins the challenges that Malta is facing, it’s highly unlikely we’ll solve any of them. [Read more…] about If You Wish to Make Malta a Better Place, Don’t Whine—Act on the Causes!
Saħħa Mentali u x-Xogħol
Fi żmien il-valur tal-flus sar importanti ħafna, xi drabi sfortunatament iżjed mis-saħħa tal-ħaddiem anke minħabba is-siegħat twal ta’ ħidma li l-ħaddiem ikollu jaħdem biex jgħix ħajja komda.
Friendship in Times of Uncertainty
Social ties, including friendship, are important factors which enable us to build resilience in the face of precarious conditions. What is it, then, that makes friendship so important to live a better life? [Read more…] about Friendship in Times of Uncertainty
“The Maltese”: In Victorian Eyes
By the 1830’s, the ‘proud and overbearing Maltese’ of the first decade of British rule had turned into a submissive people who cringed before their colonial overlords and had internalized, even at a bodily level, a complete dependency on them.
The True Power of Your Vote
It is time to recognise that, united, the Maltese electorate can achieve much more than individually. And the mechanism which enables them to do so is already in place.
Parenting Dilemmas: State or Private Schools?
Here, for the record, I will spell out what nobody in this country seems even remotely willing to mention: how we have slipped into the uncomfortable situation of segregating children according to the thickness of their parents’ wallets.
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