Victor Calleja
Great new space
It’s always a great thing to see quality spaces sprouting. The Mdina ditch was in such shambles that we hardly knew it existed. Now Zap! It’s been transformed into what sounds like a glorious piece of relaxing space. How great such plans are, what...
Fancy brainy lies
I’m not great at numbers—well actually I’m hardly great at anything. But give me figures and stocks and shares and IPOs and I really come a great cropper. So forgive me if I say something silly. I have no clue what the price of the Facebook (FB)...
The City awakes
The new Valletta project—all of it—looks great and hurrah for it. If Valletta also becomes the European Capital of Culture in 2018 that will spell more hurrahs for a great city with a real soul. Anyone who hates the Piano project—City entrance,...
Spicy spouses
No talk about 50 shades of dullness here: it's all about wives and politics so my piece is definitely more titillating than that grey book of erotica that has rocked the world. A few days ago the second most important country in the world—the...
Tolerating intolerance
What a sad and strange world ours is. A stupid film incenses some Muslims and they go on a rampage. The US Secretary of State has to pronounce herself on why the USA and the free world cannot stop such films from being produced because of the right...
Dread to be red
With all the madness going on in this country nothing beats a good lottery or a spot of gambling to get us all back to reality and away from politics and petty tricks. Brace yourself for some hot news: If I win the Lotterija Indipendenza organised...
The colonel’s clothes
Can we get real? Was the statement about the Gonzi-as-Gaddafi photo really issued by the PN top brass? Or was it—please say yes—a spoof? Was it the labour super slick PR guys playing around with such crassness? Did these PR supremos show great...
Open letter to Father Lucie
It's taken me some time to write this letter as I am a devout believer in Christ and Moses just as our Maltese saviour was. So I take my time to send off missives to errant clerics. I'm doing exactly like Moses, who took his time with Aaron, his...
Ban Sunday homilies
Some people think I should never go to mass as I am in favour of divorce, IVF and other diverse stuff unfathomable to the Holy See and his papal holiness. Maybe I should join the Moonies or be chic and join the Buddhists. Anyway I feel good with...
Let's bet on Malta losing its marbles
Sometimes I read a news snippet and think I'm in some surreal painting by Salvador Dali. A dreamscape all gone wrong. A Maltese footballer was found guilty of match-fixing and suspended for ten years. That's not yet the surreal stuff. But what the...