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  • Migrant Centres or Uninhabitable Camps?

    Migrant Centres or Uninhabitable Camps?

    “The greatest nations are defined by how they treat their weakest inhabitants”. Here’s how we treat ours.

  • The Betrayal Of A Country

    The Betrayal Of A Country

    Our country is in shambles. Being Maltese is presently not something to boast about beyond our COVID-infested shores. We are Maltese; the ones who ‘blow journalists up’, who ‘sell passports’, who ‘had most of the Police traffic department arrested’, and now, those who harbour COVID-19. The rapid deterioration of the virus’s containment is indeed a…

  • Thanks To The Frontliners

    Thanks To The Frontliners

    “Il-ġurnalisti huma raġuni ewlenija għaliex il-Laburisti jibqgħu jiżdiedu f’Malta” Robert Musumeci, lawyer, architect and wiseman of Malta informed us a few months back. “M’għandix bżonn li inti tibgħatli l-mistoqsijiet biex niftaħ magisterial inquiry,” Ian Abdilla, head of the Economic Crimes Unit. “So when was it opened then?” asked Jacob Borg from the Times of Malta. The…

  • 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…

  • Id-Demokrazija tagħna, hemm tama għaliha?

    Id-Demokrazija tagħna, hemm tama għaliha?

    Demokrazija. Kelma li ilna nisimgħu biha minn meta konna għadna żgħar, iżda li ftit minnha jafu tassew x’inhi, kif tinżamm, u x’tiswa’. Id-definizzjoni eżatta ta’ Demokrazija hija sistema governamentali fejn il-poplu kollu jmexxi permezz ta’ rappreżentanti eletti.