Bird's Eye View

Category: Social

  • What do we overlook when an efficient transport system is all we want?

    What do we overlook when an efficient transport system is all we want?

    Malta’s transport crisis stems from a reluctance to question the dominant car industry.

  • Malta: Where God comes to die

    Malta: Where God comes to die

    We Maltese pride ourselves on our feasts, saints, and churches – but none of us truly care about religion. Not even our priests.

  • What can we do about Scooters?

    What can we do about Scooters?

    If you haven’t yet seen a few scooters stacked up in the middle of a pavement or in front of doorways, then you’ve definitely seen them clogging up your social media feed, with everyone showing off the worst places they’ve found them parked.  There are even reports of elderly residents locking themselves up in their…

  • What is the environment, really?

    What is the environment, really?

    Common understandings of the environment think of it as something ‘out there’ that is separate from us. A different understanding of the environment, however, may be key to solving our current socio-ecological crises.

  • The City-state of Malta

    The City-state of Malta

    According to the new census, Malta has just experienced the largest population boom in its entire history. Why did this happen, and what will it mean for our country?

  • Blue Growth

    Blue Growth

    Blue Growth is currently one of the hot topics in the economy at the moment. This is due to the fact that the seas are constantly being polluted and overfished, and therefore a solution needs to be found. Various entities such as the EU have started initiatives due to the fact that a large percentage…

  • It is time to update our abortion laws

    It is time to update our abortion laws

    With Roe v Wade overturned by the US Supreme Court, Malta will also find itself at a crossroads in the near future

  • International Workers’ Day – JEF Malta

    International Workers’ Day – JEF Malta

    The views expressed in this article are those of the author and may not necessarily be reflective of JEF Malta as a whole. Workers Day – commemorated on the first of May – sees its origin in the year 1886 when groups that had socialist and communist ideals grouped in order to remember the riots…

  • A Simple Route to Better Public Transport

    A Simple Route to Better Public Transport

    Does Malta understand what’s wrong with its transport system, or is it just looking for another “amongst the first in the world” title?

  • Malta: The Concrete Garden

    Malta: The Concrete Garden

    At this point in time, everybody and their mother knows that Malta is being increasingly entombed into a coffin of concrete by developers via their shady deals with the planning authority (including in some cases with the Prime Minister himself) and blatant disregard for the judicial protests of NGOs. Cranes have long since replaced the…