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This is not normal

Monday, 21 July 2025, 12:30 Last update: about 13 months ago

We Maltese are accustomed to pretending things are fine. We smile, shrug, and adapt. We say “m’hemmx x’tagħmel” when faced with injustice. We learn to work around broken...

It stinks to hell

Sunday, 20 July 2025, 07:08 Last update: about 2 years ago

The scourge of corruption in Malta was in the news again recently, when the UN published its Sustainable Development Index.  Corruption has become so ingrained that the record negative score...

Nature is doing its part. Are we?

Sunday, 13 July 2025, 08:28 Last update: about 2 years ago

Summer is once again with us. As the dry months set in, the Maltese landscape becomes progressively less green, with wild plants dying off. The environment, however, is not just about air, water or...

Sparkle in politics

Sunday, 13 July 2025, 08:16 Last update: about 2 years ago

Recently a journalist asked "where is the sparkle in the PN's politics?" This set me thinking and asking "can there be any sparkle in politics?" Politicians and political leaders come and go...

Is a Third World War avoidable?

Sunday, 13 July 2025, 07:33 Last update: about 2 years ago

In 1932, Albert Einstein wrote a pressing letter to Sigmund Freud. In it, the century's foremost genius asked the century's foremost psychologist, "Is there any way of delivering mankind from the...

Reversing the trend of drug-normalisation

Sunday, 13 July 2025, 07:30 Last update: about 2 years ago

The video of three Lesa officials making use of cocaine in their official car, while on duty, expectedly made the rounds a few days back. The outrageous behaviour of the individuals however didn't...

Funding the arts or funding optics

Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 10:22 Last update: about 2 years ago

It's time local artists and cultural workers reflect on themselves before blaming others. Every year, small protests arise over misused funds and lavish, optics-driven events that claim to support the...

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