Pope Benedict told us. And he is right. But it's not just that. If we're honest, it's also about competition. Big-time. The current trend to attempt to remove all forms of rivalry and competition from the lives of our children is highly...

Forgive me while I start today’s rant by pointing out the obvious. A healthy number of my Maltese compatriots choose to turn J.F. Kennedy’s famed maxim right on its tail by playing merry hell with the welfare system, the taxation loopholes, the sick...

Really, is there no limit to the shady tactics that some people will try to employ in order prove a point?  They do so without realising that by using underhand methods they’re only hindering their cause and losing brownie points with the public...

With certain individuals, the potential for whining and complaining really knows no limit. Unlike the capacity for empathy, which could really do with a good boost. The latest issue to catch the attention of the Maltese gemgem is the opening of the...

Well-mannered children. Remember them? They used to be all the rage but, much like the poor Siberian tiger, they appear to have been hunted into extinction. Or maybe they simply grew up wanting to offer their own kids a freer, more relaxed...

When Gozo Bishop Mario Grech decides to announce that "a family is a relationship between man and woman, based on marriage" - automatically disqualifying other unions from making the grade - I do not bat an eyelid. Eighty per cent of Facebook is...

Really, it’s just too awesome when your worst critics unwittingly prove your point. Over and over again. My previous post about a particular breed of university students who are – I’d better put this nicely for a change - less than enterprising,...

Ah, generalisations. Almost as odious as comparisons. It would probably have been fairer to title my piece "a campus of some self-entitled twerps". Sadly, however, the latest piece of genius thinking to emerge from Tal-Qroqq – courtesy of Anonymous...

The tag-line chosen by Commission for the Promotion of Equality to promote an EU anti-discrimination programme really says it all. "We're not racist, but..." Never has one three-letter word been imbued with so much hidden meaning. Few are those...

Sometimes it feels like people are just asking to be scammed. I can't remember where I read this, but I suspect that the saying that you can only scam a person if they are dishonest has more than a grain of truth to it. To that, we can also add that...