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...
Investing in nature is an opportunity that the EU can’t miss
Monday, 7 July 2025, 09:49
Last update: about 2 years ago
Three quarters of all businesses depend on nature, one way or another. For raw materials like timber, cotton, and crops. For ecosystem services, like the microbes and decomposers that keep farmland...