Bird's Eye View

Tag: government

  • A culture propagating femicide and misogyny

    A culture propagating femicide and misogyny

    Paulina Dembska is not the first to suffer such injustice, and unfortunately, she will most certainly not be the last.

  • Post-Merkel Germany: 5 Key Points

    Post-Merkel Germany: 5 Key Points

    After 16 years of Angela Merkel as Chancellor, what does the new government look like, and what can we expect from a Merkel-less Germany?

  • The abortion bogeyman rears its head

    The abortion bogeyman rears its head

    What is more prevalent on the Maltese islands than the belief that abortion is morally reprehensive in any shape or form? This writer can think of unhealthy eating and a compulsive love of cars as possible contenders. Scientific surveys consistently show that the vast majority of the Maltese population oppose the legalisation of abortion in…

  • Generation Labour

    Generation Labour

    Partit Laburista, a party which is infamous for its mob powered rule and state-sanctioned ‘thuggery’ during the ‘70s-‘80s. After 25 years in opposition, albeit those 2 years being a failed government in the late ‘90s, it reinvents itself as a progressive force of change. Only to be marked by the obscenities of perverse corruption and…

  • Id-Demokrazija tagħna, hemm tama għaliha?

    Id-Demokrazija tagħna, hemm tama għaliha?

    Demokrazija. Kelma li ilna nisimgħu biha minn meta konna għadna żgħar, iżda li ftit minnha jafu tassew x’inhi, kif tinżamm, u x’tiswa’. Id-definizzjoni eżatta ta’ Demokrazija hija sistema governamentali fejn il-poplu kollu jmexxi permezz ta’ rappreżentanti eletti.