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...

I have my own, possibly skewed or even biased, interpretation of what happened within our people these past days. Ever since the virus pandemic made it to our shores our total attention was...

What shocked us most about the mysterious Covid19 virus was the way in which it was able to take a whole world, with its massive activities on land, sea and sky and take all people and places into...

The government cannot be selective and choose which parts of the population to aid financially, while leaving others to fend for themselves, as that would amount to social injustice, Opposition Leader...