Latest news and stories about social commentary in Portugal for expats and residents.
Living implies noticing the differences between people, but it is saddening to see middle-class suburbanites offering themselves up to be exploited by the audiovisual industry.
Everything that involves crowds, queues, sweat - in other words, patience, tolerance and understanding - unfairly ends up on the back of the same poor scapegoat: the bastard month of August. Opinion by Miguel Esteves Cardoso
In Loures, bullying is king and food trucks are the new hotels. If things heat up, the youth save the day, and if you want to see Left Bloc members, Rui Rocha takes you on a safari via television.
The pattern is the same. Always the same. The queers celebrate, the queers die, and the world decides what to do with our corpses. Chronicle by Mia Cheia de Graça
These are the 'good' Portuguese people. They claim to be defenders of life, but they applaud death, relish its consequences, and propagate hatred, threats to physical integrity, and the dehumanisation of everyone who represents anything they do not know, fear, and, in many cases, would even like to have or be but do not dare to.
Do you want a world without betting house advertisements? Then keep it. Keep the silence, the saved money, and the children who do not know the meaning of cash out. A column by Madalena Sá Fernandes.
The most conservative wing of the Catholic Church (...) hysterically waving the danger of an invasion of Europe by Islam, but, in the end, it is an ideological ally of radical Muslims. Chronicle by Isabel Stilwell
The literary legacy of Eça de Queiroz remains a defining influence on the portrayal and understanding of Portugal.
Friends are the true loves of our lives. They should be recognised as tangible and intangible heritage of humanity. A column by Cláudia Lucas Chéu
Portugal is the land of the groundhog because we also find ourselves in a bewitched time, stuck, completely still. And nothing will change as long as we insist on staying the same.
The mathematics where 12 is more than half of 26 and deputies who run away from veterinarians. Even the 'squeaky clean' Gustavo Santos, who doesn't even vote, wants to run the show.
No, we are not suffering from persecution mania. These people do not complain indiscriminately. At least my friend does not usually do so. A column by Cláudia Lucas Chéu.
“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more than they have” (Pascal)
A father of two daughters, the writer and columnist says he is concerned that young people who are now 20 are more “reactionary” than those of his generation.
“I am not judging those who do it... I do, however, judge those who do it and have the choice not to, which is the case for many people in Portugal”: on the Posto Emissor podcast, content creator and DJ Kiko is Hot explains the reasons that led him to refuse the invitation to perform on the BacanaPlay stage at Rock in Rio Lisbon.
We are very good at speaking ill of ourselves, but that is perhaps our secret to improving. Opinion by Bárbara Reis
A reflection on how the digital age, the loss of historical perspective, and increasing social aggression are eroding our collective serenity and democratic coexistence. The author warns against the rise of extremism, police violence, and the intolerance towards others, questioning whether the lack of time for reflection is fueling our basic instincts for aggression.
There is something corrosive about a model that accustoms the citizen to dependency, shaping men who demand rights vehemently, while distancing themselves from their duties with equal readiness.
We still force a seventeen-year-old to prove that what they know is truly their own, yet we no longer ask those who run to lead us to prove they believe in what they say.
“Money doesn't buy happiness,” say the rich on their way to the Maldives, or the poor who, having no other choice, convince themselves over bread and butter and instant coffee. A column by Cláudia Lucas Chéu.
The skin, that ancient border where so many people still think they have customs rights and where the female nipple still triggers fits of rage if it dares to protrude from under a top. A column by Liliana Carona.
If part of the right wants to imitate the moralistic left, that is their problem. But it would be better if they did not do so by using the faith of millions as a political prop.
This country is not for the young. This country is not for the old. This country is not for the poor. This country is not for the rich. Who is this country for, after all? The answer may hurt all Portuguese people, but it must be written – Portugal is not a country. Portugal is a place. There is a...
I do not recall seeing people like Anizabela Amaral, Mamadou Ba, Pedro Schacht, Joacine Katar Moreira, Sandra Urceira and many, many other woke activists accusing a black person of racism.
In the case of the Portuguese, are those who did not emigrate and remain here such a large army of 'complacent' people, scattered throughout the 'small villages of the country's interior'?
The question is knowing when diversity becomes too much diversity – or, in other words, knowing when diversity ceases to be our strength and becomes our weakness.
What led Pimenta Machado to start this war on the beaches now? The traumatising sea baths of Nuno Markl's great-great-great-great-uncle. And the CGTP figures on the strike that are hard to believe.
In the morning, you say you are a feminist against the abuses of the patriarchy, but at night you go to a concert by an artist who objectifies women and even has a “little house” that functions as a Latin macho's harem.
The latest guest on the Posto Emissor podcast, Fernando Ribeiro, lead singer of Moonspell, discussed his political convictions, identifying as left-wing “for a very simple reason: the redistribution of money”
An exploration of the individuals behind the voices of women.
