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Category: Politics

  • Politics and Crisis: Imagining the New Normal

    Politics and Crisis: Imagining the New Normal

    The world is in the throes of the most serious health crisis in a century. In the blink of an eye, societies have seen the most basic norms overridden, the ‘normal’ put on hold.

  • Why do Third Parties consistently Implode?

    Why do Third Parties consistently Implode?

    Why are we stuck with two tribes controlling the totality of our country, which continue to poison our state?

  • Why are the press misleading us about Brexit?

    Why are the press misleading us about Brexit?

    Brexit has been a near-continuous facet of the news over the past 3 years. Now that Brexit is done, the negotiations are all about the withdrawal. The way the media has been reporting it does the whole process a disservice. This article explains why I think the reporting is incorrect, and how to think about…

  • Never vote for an incompetent candidate again

    In every election, we choose who we want in Parliament based on the list of people running for office. Each party presents their candidates but do the parties vet them first? And what should they filter for? This article explains why parties should vote for tech-savvy candidates. Background We all vote for the candidates on…

  • What I learned from Maltese election campaigns

    During my sabbatical last year I had plenty of time to think about my election campaign. It’s easy to say I failed because I didn’t win a seat in the European Parliament but what did I gain from the experience? ? This article outlines the top 10 lessons I learned from running an election campaign…

  • The revolutionary way to improve Parliament

    We’ve heard how government employs opposition MPs. We also heard how government backbenchers are on the government’s payroll. Both these cases are problems for democracy. They’re also the same problem, even if they seem different. This article explains why they’re identical, why this is a problem and how we can start to fix this. Jobs…

  • The reason I was away from politics last year – Antoine P. Borg

    After contesting the European Parliament election last year, I announced I was going to take a sabbatical from politics. This was the right thing to do. This article explains why it was necessary, what I learned, and how I’m going to reboot things. The aftermath of the election Monday 27 May For the first time…

  • ASCS Review on Budget 2020

    The Budget presented for 2020 was for the most part a pretty uneventful budget. The budget very clearly showed that the country is in surplus, with its strict emphasis on the fact that this was the third consecutive budget without an increase in taxes. The budget was also full of tax rebates and one-offs meant…

  • Voice of the People: Democracy, Brexit & Populism

    Voice of the People: Democracy, Brexit & Populism

    ‘Populism’. Perhaps many of us are simply more than a little sick and tired of the phrase by now, reminded as we are on a daily basis of the potentially toxic combination of xenophobia, climate-denial and social media. But if we are to ever stop reading about populism, perhaps we need to devote time to…

  • Pol Pot: The lesser known genocidist of Southeast Asia

    Pol Pot: The lesser known genocidist of Southeast Asia

    Imagine a world where the worst people you know of, ever to have sauntered the Earth, weren’t that bad. Imagine the likes of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, even Mao Zedong, the unmitigated evils, the people whose minds’ unparalleled amorality was corrupted to such an extent that killing was first nature and life was but a…