According to a news item that went viral over the weekend the Splash and Fun complex is full of shit. Actually to be more precise, tests have detected the presence of E Coli bacteria in the pool water at the popular summer resort. The news gets worse though. Apparently the Health Department...

The appointment of the legal consultant of the Malta Pyrotechnics Association to the chair of a working group tasked to devise a new policy on fireworks factories is the last in a long string of “inappropriate” appointments being made under the current Labour government. The...

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we could call our own. This violence of landscape, this cruelty of climate, this continual tension in everything, and even these...

Yes it has been the silly season and we have taken a step back from the computer screen. Between a marathon of pre-season football frenzy (Britghton, Charity Shield, Metz and Metz again as well as Luxembourg’s great victory against Lithuania) and desperate attempts to enjoy the laid back...

“Go back to your country”, he typed, he thought, he yelled, he spat, he fumed. “They should go back to their country”, he reasoned with friends, he told his politician, he reckoned with the warden, he argued on the promenade. “They’re useless good for...