Social commentary articles

  • Costa Blanca South: Social Scene

    Fleetwood Mac In honour of Norwegian Constitution Day, The Emerald Isle proudly presents its tribute to Fleetwood Mac. This spectacular tribute brings your favourite songs such as “Go Your Own Way,” “Don’t Stop,” “Rhiannon,” and “Landslide” to the stage, delivering performances that will have audiences on their feet and reminiscing about the heyday of the […]

  • Commentary: Mother's Day without our matriarchs

    Moms are supposed to die before their children, so a son’s first Mother’s Day without his mom feels less like an outright tragedy than a tragic rite of passage. And on my Norwegian side, Sunday is the first Mother’s Day when all the moms will be gone. My grandmother (mor mor in Norwegian, for “mother’s mother”) died in 2014 from a chronic illness. Her daughter, my mom, died last year after a brief, catastrophic illness. My great-aunt, the last surviving member of our family to have uprooted from...

  • The Power of Capitalism: The myth of Swedish socialism

    Sweden has long had a reputation as a successful 'socialist democracy' - but it's market reforms that have powered growth