I read this paper’s awkward diatribe (August 26) that Żonqor is “one of a few remaining stretches of virgin land”. It is a disgusting rubbish dump. No tourist coaches would ever venture into this dark and solitary place.

I took the trouble to drive along the rubbish road for three hours to see for myself what was there. No hint of flora or fauna. I spotted one bird that I suspect had been driven by a gale into this rubbish dump in error.

The only people interested in Żonqor would be specialist recovery people wishing to salvage wasted refrigerator parts in order to compile a history of refrigeration methodologies deployed since the advent of artificial freezing. I found not one area of cultivated or cultivatable land. It is a rubbish desert of incredible dreariness.

Please get a grip and stop writing in support of the wasteland known as “Żonqor”.

Joseph Muscat is totally correct in believing this wasteland could be put to much better use.

The Times of Malta is playing games with politics just in the same way it accuses the Labour Party of doing.

The last government laid down a cast iron economic base upon which Muscat has built and which he and his government have much to be proud of. Both the Nationalists and now the Socialists have secured the strongest economy in Europe, which is the envy of the whole world. Every economic parameter is exceeded and growth will continue.

So stupid arguments about Żonqor are baseless and if the new university wants a sea view, then let it have it.

Nibbling away? At what? Bulldoze this rubbish site and create something out of a barren and useless desert such that the South finally becomes what it should be. The true centre of excellence with Smart City at its core.