Category: Politics

  • The end of the world as we know it!(?)

    The end of the world as we know it!(?)

    A lot has changed hasn’t it? Having to stay home, change our routine, change our habits and norms. At times it feels like it’s the end of the world as we know it. However, much hasn’t really changed at all. Lots of things are happening just as they used to, the only issue is it’s…

  • Why the Youth Should Participate in Politics, Now More Than Ever

    Why the Youth Should Participate in Politics, Now More Than Ever

    In an ever-changing world, the youth are being given countless opportunities. However, very few are utilising these opportunities to speak up about what’s bothering them with regards to how their country is governed. There are various reasons as to why this is happening, however, interest in politics has severely declined over the years. Nowadays, when…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Untie the Blindfold

    Untie the Blindfold

    We share a breath-taking world, beautiful in its harmony but tainted with corruption, abuse of power and oppression. Yet, some of us cannot see or recognize the presence of the latter. If our country were truly tainted by corruption and abuse of power, why wouldn’t we be able to see it? Because we’ve been blindfolded.…

  • Real Leadership is forged in Crisis

    Real Leadership is forged in Crisis

    This pandemic is no excuse to not hold Robert Abela’s feet, and those of other politicians, to the fire of public scrutiny, and it should not be, as it is certainly not abnormal in this case, or in any other.

  • From Norman to Normal – How a Week changed the Nation

    From Norman to Normal – How a Week changed the Nation

    Erica Chenoweth stated that it only takes 3.5% of the population to ensure a nationwide political shift- What was Lowell’s last vote share? 3.5%