Robert Abela is fast becoming Malta’s biggest moral hazard.  He is coming across as hell-bent on demoralizing the population whilst trying to reach in desperation for votes showing a deep...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore is also known for a quote, which I am sharing, “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the...

While some Covid-19 measures could be eased soon, we will not be returning to how things were in December "any time soon," Public Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci said on this week's edition of...

A conclusion about what went on in the years since the financial crisis of the years 2008/2020 is frequently being reached: the priority was for governments to balance their books. They needed to cut...

As our jingoistic sentiments secrete from every corner of these Islands, 20 reflections come to mind; 1.       Alan Kurdi, not that I had any doubt, died for...

I’m still concerned that the estimates being advanced about the damage that the corona virus pandemic has been causing are low. Not just for Malta, but across the board. I understand the...

What if there is only one ventilator available and you have to choose between a 21-year-old African immigrant and an elderly member of a Maltese family? This was the question raised by somebody a few...

Earlier this week, Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo sanctimoniously declared on TV that he had discussed at length the immigration crisis in Maltese waters with the EU Commission, with the Vatican and...

To describe it as some kind of Hobson’s choice would be rather naïve. The immigration crisis that is occurring in the very middle of the Mediterranean is like a stellar black hole, a big...

We are all cretins. Inhumane and racist. Or many of us are. And the ones who never speak up are just as cretinous and despicable. The ones who say “yes it’s wrong to let them drown...