Victor Calleja

Victor Calleja

Victor Calleja has been in the world of communications for over 30 years. He now writes for a living. Follow him also on victorcalleja.com.

• Sunday, February 15, 2015, 09:55 by

  Victor Calleja

  Buzzword bunglers

  People get the government they deserve said some old sad sage. Two years ago, we the people chose a party that breathed and gave life to buzzwords. Big beautiful buzzwords. And life was breezy, life was bliss. Marketing themselves as the new party...
  read more »
• Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 11:12 by

  Victor Calleja

  War in Italy

  A country close to us in Europe has a terrific internal war going on. Italy is ravaged by killings, maimings, bombs, and riven by sectoral and political fighting. No end is in sight and most of its infrastructure is in tatters. The present is...
  read more »
• Saturday, January 17, 2015, 13:53 by

  Victor Calleja

  Knock out Pope

  Occasionally, a Pope comes around who truly sounds as if the wizened cardinals in the Sistine Chapel were inspired by a Holy Spirit when he was chosen. And Pope Francis is one of them. He is a true beacon and a fantastic innovator. If he can...
  read more »
• Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 15:52 by

  Victor Calleja

  I have a big nose

  Anyone is free to laugh at my big nose and draw a caricature of it making it 10 times its size. No one would care. Or no one should care. And, because I am not a crazed numbskull, I would never show anger at this depiction, much less thump...
  read more »
• Monday, December 29, 2014, 09:43 by

  Victor Calleja

  Is there a reason to be jolly?

  It’s ho ho ho time and I have forgotten to wish happy holidays to all, including my far-flung enemies. Yes I know it should be Happy Christmas but I’m trying hard to annoy no one, including all the atheists who don’t mind the feasting festivities...
  read more »
• Wednesday, December 24, 2014, 08:34 by

  Victor Calleja

  Non-stick superman

  I salute the man who has been a god-sent gift to us Maltese, Dr Joseph Muscat. Talk of Trojan horses is not welcome as we, the Maltese nation as a whole, know a gift-horse when we see one and we are truly impressed by him. If the recent survey...
  read more »
• Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 14:23 by

  Victor Calleja

  Bring in more clowns

  Let’s revisit some recent events on this blighted isle. Car driven by a certain Smith, of unknown origin, hits minister’s car mirror. Big Deal! Minister’s driver chases, threatens and shoots. DOI issues press release with more holes in it than the...
  read more »
• Thursday, December 11, 2014, 06:36 by

  Victor Calleja

  Righting the balance

  This was the week, or the weeks, that was or were. So many things happened, so many tremors were felt, that it rendered most comment superfluous or ridiculous. And every time anyone of us mere mortals spoke, we were upstaged by a bigger bombshell...
  read more »
• Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 11:09 by

  Victor Calleja

  The horror, the horror

  Can we all wake up and get a proper hold of ourselves? Can we stop thinking of all our problems, especially the minister’s driver’s shooting, as political? To quote the Prime Minister can we wake up and smell the coffee? Not that any coffee would...
  read more »
• Friday, November 28, 2014, 08:47 by

  Victor Calleja

  The foreign perspective

  It’s hard to believe what this tiny, practically barren small rock has achieved over the years. Meeting foreigners, especially those based in Malta who all, or nearly all, speak highly of us and our little spot in the Med, makes me so proud. Even...
  read more »