Bird's Eye View

Author: Gianluca Vella

  • World Suicide Prevention Day

    Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. Every year, approximately 1 million people commit suicide. You can help in preventing this. If you notice that someone has suicidal thoughts or even jokes about it, talk to them and encourage them to speak up. Once it’s done, it’s done. Help prevent it before it’s too late. Emotional…

  • Lifting the Ban on Tommy Robinson

    In the midst of a still highly contested issue, British Party UKIP has officially given its go ahead for a Tommy Robinson membership debate.

  • Will poverty eventually decrease into nothing?

    Unfortunately, poverty is something that is still very present in today’s modernised world. Though poverty rates have decreased throughout time, that does not make today’s poverty rates justifiable.

  • A new era for International Football begins

    During this week, a new chapter for international football has begun with the newly-formed UEFA Nations League. This new tournament involves European nations, and its aim according to UEFA is to “improve the quality and standing of national team football, with associations, coaches, players and supporters increasingly of the opinion that friendly matches are not…

  • This Month’s Recap: August 2018

  • Along Party Lines

    During the recent months, if not the past few years, the Maltese political landscape has consolidated itself to what seems to be an indefinite two-party state, with any chance of having three or even more parties in parliament being extremely difficult, if not completely impossible. This re-dimensioning of the political climate however is not just…

  • A Brief Take on Media Censorship

    Free speech is a staple in all functioning and stable democracies, and is endowed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [1]. But what is it really? According to the Declaration of Human Rights, it is defined as “the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through…

  • The Silenced Voices of our Planet

    In what is being seen as a major blow to the president, environmental activist Hulot has resigned in the face of many failed attempts to address several environmental issues, most prominently climate change, which has led to a great deal of frustration for the minister.

  • North Korea continues developing Nuclear Weapons

    An unfortunate, surprisingly unsurprising piece of news…..You all remember the sense of surrealism following North Korea’s commitment to de-nuclearise right? Well, it seems that commitment may be heavily questioned as a strangely detailed report published by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s Atomic watchdog, implies that North Korea has continued to develop its…

  • EU aid dependency in Greece formally ends

    Long years of bailout have finally come to an end! Indeed, today our neighbors to the east have successfully concluded a three year long stability support programme. Greece has secured its place within the Eurozone and more importantly, within the EU, and will once again reclaim it’s financial independence.