Blogs
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Malmo and Gozo calling
This weekend everyone is agog with the Eurovision. This national pastime dominates conversation during this time of year. Lovers and haters of the festival discuss, albeit for different reasons, all aspects of this festival. Eurovision lovers...
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Good and bad news from the courts
A recent decision of the Court regarding a case originally hailing from 1979 has both bad and good news for the citizens of this fair land. Should I start with the bad news or with the good news? Let me start from the very beginning as Mary Poppins...
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ENOUGH, NOW
A young biker lost his life on Saturday evening. I am a biker, as is my son, and it is in the nature of biking that when a brother or sister goes down, you feel it more keenly, and when your nearest and dearest are out on the road, each news report...
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Identity Crisis
I have had it up to my stuffy nostrils with people constantly mixing apples and oranges in this country. Seriously, if I hear another person using the abortion argument when the debate is about the use of animals in circuses, I might do something...
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Surprising massages
I’m at the great age where, if I am given a massage, I have to pay for it. And any extras or happy endings are definitely not due to my biceps, beauty or bearing. Only my wallet could be the attraction. So what am I on about besides age and its...
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BLOODY AMATEURS
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has the right to that title by dint of a resounding victory. He achieved this victory partly on the back of a media campaign that combined slick sound-bites, snappy come-backs and sharp visuals, helped no end by a...
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Animal rights: hype and reality?
For the very first time ever Malta has a Parliamentary Secretary for Animal Rights in the person of the Roderick Galdes. In a recent interview with The Times of Malta he said that one of the two tasks on his in-tray is the obtaining of a derogation...
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YOU AND THEM
The Labour Party, bless its little cotton socks, has decreed that Simon Busuttil should eliminate "us and them" politics. No doubt, as soon as he doesn't do what Labour's heart desires, the usual chant of "thirty six thousand and you didn't learn...
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May he rest in peace
The news of the death of former Judge Ray Pace saddened me a lot. I did not know Dr Pace personally. I have never had any conversation or communication with him. I do not know any of his family. So you may ask why the news saddened. I try to answer.
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The week that was
This week was full of silly antics and news stories - from the Maltese elite being embarrassed by Malta’s potatoes, to Jason Micallef being given the power to single handedly ridicule (sic) the country....their words not mine. Between these two...
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What’s wrong with Jason?
Ever since I could use the few brain cells I was given, I have realised that, try as we do, we humans are never objective. Some might be better at it than others, but I think that, just as death and taxes are certainties in life, being subjected to...
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GOODBYE, THANK YOU
Tomorrow, the Nationalist Party will begin the process to elect a new leader, making this the last day with Dr Lawrence Gonzi at its head. I have no doubt that the shallow, the twisted, the bitter and the ungrateful will have enormous fun on the...
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Yes, the Maltese patata rocks
Seems like we have become so shallow and arrogant that we cannot even recognize a good thing for what it is. I'm talking about the puzzling reactions to a Youtube video about Maltese potato harvesting. The video went viral overnight, attracting the...
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Birds’ brains, verbal traps and loopy loops
“He also told Times of Malta that a ‘technical loophole’ has been found that would allow the Government to present proposals to the European Union to allow bird trapping in autumn.” Can someone in their right senses please explain what the words...
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Is the future of the World Wide Web secure?
If this morning you accessed the Internet and used the World Wide Web remember that April 30, 2013 was the 20th anniversary of that historic day when the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) made the World Wide Web available to the...
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COMING OUT
No, this is not a piece about the crypto-Labourites who have been outed by josephmuscat.con’s appointment (of them) to various boards in his gift. To start with, I’m not one of those who thinks he’s doing anything particularly wrong – every...
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Chiara’s Zarbun
I love Chiara, but I’m not quite sure I want anything to do with her Zarbun. Truth is, this artist is the epitome of natural talent, sheer determination and guts, and to top it all off she’s got a burning personality that makes it hard not to like...
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Maltese lessons to France
The visit of Prime Minister Muscat to President Hollande must have been an interesting experience for our Prime Minister. On paper this was like a meeting between the Maltese David and the French Goliath. It reality it was anything but that. From...
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ROOFING OVER
To read certain columnists, that blinking open space, part of Piano's design for City Gate, remains the be-all and end-all of everything that matters in the country. In fact, the debate has expanded to take in the roof, rather than lack thereof, of...
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Dr Gonzi: the time for dignity has gone
Time has been tough on Gonzi. His story sounds like a horror story—or rather a fairy-tale turned sour. He became leader of a party in full swing. He succeeded Eddie Fenech Adami, a giant of Maltese politics who hadn’t just tamed but had knocked out...
