I am writing this after a seventy-five minute commute to the office this morning ruined all my Zen. Spending over fifty minutes stuck in one spot on the B’Kara By-Pass – which, may I remind you, is roughly five kilometres long (I’m very bad at...

I realise that, with the situation being rather hairy for our national airline, being less than complimentary about anything related to Air Malta is not quite cricket. But someone clearly needs to unleash a couple of black clouds on this particular...

The old suq in Valletta cuts a pretty depressing figure as things stand. I have the faintest memory of when it was buzzing with life, when it was considered not only as a valuable source of food and produce for city people and beyond but also as a...

A government appointed working group will be finalising its recommendations about teen party regulations "shortly", we were informed last Monday. In the meantime, self-styled children's party organiser (because yes, twelve and thirteen year olds are...

It is rather amazing what conclusion/judgements about us we, as a population, are happy to let slide without as much as a raised eyebrow. Take the little item that appeared in the news about four weeks ago, give or take. Our country, we were...

Now that the whole (futile, if you ask me) exercise of electing local council reps is over, allow me to bore you some more about the subject. Then we can consign it back to the depths of our subconscious for some more months, while a bunch of quasi...

In my student days, lessons in Maltese history had a massive failing. A good chunk of the previous four decades were invariably omitted. These were the Mintoff decades, years that left an indelible mark on the political and social path our country...

“I want them dead. All of them...” “He can go f*** himself.” Now see, I'm a bit of a traditionalist. In my mind there aren't many different meanings that you can assign to the above. Of course, I appreciate the importance of context as much as the...

When I first read the second book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire, I was shocked by the tale of sex slavery and sadism. The book takes the reader on a journey into an underground world where that famous cliché, treating...

When I wrote in my very first blogpost that our would-be criminals seemed to be getting stupider and stupider by the day, I forgot to add one thing: they are also becoming younger and younger. Used to be a time where the presence of anyone under the...