Life with a dash of zing
It appears that the majority of our politicians have a disturbing lack of understanding of what befits their position and what, most certainly, doesn’t. First we have our head of state packing up his bags and going off for a month in Peru on missionary work. If you’re wondering what is wrong with doing missionary [...]
I could have sworn that slick diplomacy is one of the very few essential ingredients required to make the grade as politician. However, renegade MP Franco Debono (I’m wary of actually using the prefix ‘Nationalist’) seems really keen to prove this quaint notion of mine wrong. I find myself growing more and more perplexed as [...]
I know I’m probably going out on a limb here, but – unlike many others – my first reaction when I read that the Hal Far tent village is (finally) being dismantled was not one of applause. Or rather, it was but only until I read that it is going to be replaced with “rows [...]
Really, I do not know how else to describe the latest debacle which sees a man being acquitted of rape despite the existence of a tonne of evidence proclaiming that he is anything but innocent. And what does our prosecution do when presented with incontrovertible proof that a man has raped a minor? It mishandles [...]
Apparently it’s fine for common mortals to queue at the post office to pick up votes and to waste hours at sundry government departments to carry out necessities. It is not fine, however, for the privileged caste in Malta – ie the hunters – to use their precious time in order to pick up their [...]
The debate about IVF procedures rages on and no, I am not going to join it. Like I explained to the lady who asked me how come I have not yet put my two cents’ worth, more qualified people than me have already made the relevant points. This doesn’t mean I’m not following the debate. [...]
Many of my readers – particularly women – have been asking how come I have not put in my two cents’ worth about the likely introduction of mandatory quotas for women in the boardroom. The reason is a simple one: while I do have a very strong opinion about it, I didn’t want to [...]
Source: Uploaded by user via Kim on Pinterest 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 [...]
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 would take. Judging by what I hear, few are the history teachers that dare [...]
One of my rants on The Times from last week was related to the way that our parliamentary Family Committee seemed to be devoting its attention to issues that are purely related to religion. Such as Mons Philip Calleja’s worry that civil marriages are taking over the country. This, instead of focusing on issues that [...]
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