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  • 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.

  • Empire of Storms – Sarah J. Maas

    Empire of Storms – Sarah J. Maas

    If any of you keep up to date with my Insta Stories, you would’ve noticed that I was a bawling mess whilst I was reading “Empire of Storms” by Sarah J. Maas. If not, here’s a snippet of my emotional ranting: I was a mess; a ball of emotions. The heart-ache I felt after reading…

  • 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 worrying crisis in the PN

    Malta’s opposition party, the Nationalist Party, has taken a beating over the past 6 years. Many have written about the internal power struggle and the crisis they’re in. I think they’re missing the point. I think the damage is deeper than that. I – Recent history Between 1987 and 2013, the Nationalist Party (PN) ruled for 26…

  • 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.