Category: Opinion

  • Prosit, Ministru

    Prosit, Ministru

    The new scandal involving one of Malta’s ministers acting like a child is unsurprising. Not because it is normal for Ministers to act like children (yes, really) but since the Minister was Silvio Schembri, we can’t expect anything less. On Tuesday, Silvio Schembri made a tweet of his visit to Malta Enterprise with the Prime…

  • Behind every victory, lies a shadow

    Behind every victory, lies a shadow

    It is unjust that young people today are described as irresponsible. The notion of considering all youths as irresponsible is a rather heavy generalization. Usually, it is older people who have this type of view on today’s young people, even having coined the term “snowflake” for youths of the 21st century whom they consider ‘less…

  • Fostering Passive Students

    Fostering Passive Students

    “A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” Helen Keller Education is an important aspect of how a person’s characteristics and knowledge develop. Of course, it is not the only aspect since there are other key players such as mass media, yet education is quite crucial. We often hear students complain that our…

  • The remarkable efforts to fight the Coronavirus

    The remarkable efforts to fight the Coronavirus

    The entire world is fighting the coronavirus in an effort to find some kind of solution that will take us out of the situation we find ourselves in. This article examines the current global efforts, and examines what they mean for our future. I don’t need to explain how bad the coronavirus is, how it’s…

  • Chairman Bob’s cultural revolution

    Chairman Bob’s cultural revolution

    We are all aware that China is in the news quite regularly these days, the world over. Be it a squabble with Dangerous Donald, a fistfight on the China-India border, or lockdown in Wuhan; the country has hogged the headlines. What us Westerners find particularly disgruntling about China is its ominous, all-seeing Communist Party; a…

  • Land of the Ugly?

    Land of the Ugly?

    When one thinks of architecture in Malta, one thinks of buildings built by the Knights of St. John such as the Auberge de Castille in its style of Spanish Baroque, or perhaps a street with traditional Maltese balconies, or even old cities like Mdina with its fortifications. But the reality is that we are drowning…

  • The Totalitarianism of Toddlers

    The Totalitarianism of Toddlers

    When I was four years old, I would regularly fight with my beloved younger brother and would sometimes even hit him. He would start crying and my mum would report to the scene, but I would always claim that I had nothing to do with it. Occasionally, I would be short-sighted enough to perpetrate the…

  • The importance of youth activism

    The importance of youth activism

    At a certain point in our lives, we have all come across the word ‘democracy’ and learnt its definition for an exam or other purposes. Democracy is a form of government which gives a voice to the people to the extent that if we take Malta as an example, the Maltese people get to elect…

  • To All Those Who Say Gen Z Is Too Young

    To All Those Who Say Gen Z Is Too Young

    From the moment a child leaves the womb they’re faced with a cruel world filled with pain and people who want nothing but to put them down, a world still filled with colour, love and joy, nonetheless. Some learn it the hard way, but we all need to stand up for ourselves in this life…

  • Generation Labour

    Generation Labour

    Partit Laburista, a party which is infamous for its mob powered rule and state-sanctioned ‘thuggery’ during the ‘70s-‘80s. After 25 years in opposition, albeit those 2 years being a failed government in the late ‘90s, it reinvents itself as a progressive force of change. Only to be marked by the obscenities of perverse corruption and…