Someone I know sent this to the prime minister earlier today: Prime Minister: I refer to the article Lovin’ Malta just published regarding the use of vouchers in strip clubs. I already had my reservations as to whether this blanket approach of giving vouchers to people, regardless of their income, was an effective way of [...]

George Santayana in 1905 wrote that ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ The quote was slightly changed in a speech by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons in 1948 when he said that ‘those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.’ History is not written [...]

I’m afraid she’s right. Mandy Mallia, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s sister, says what many of us where thinking at the sight of over-cooked pasta beads with tinned cocktail sausages. Well, one of the things we were thinking anyway. Mandy Mallia had the elegance not to comment about the food. I don’t. Whatever that was, it looked [...]

Edward Scicluna is being grossly disingenuous in his interview with Times of Malta today. He says the fact that there is an inquiry into his conduct and the conduct of all government ministers using public funds to fund propaganda on social media on their personal Facebook page is a “farce”. He resorts first to the [...]

Opposition MPs are boycotting the parliamentary grilling of the nominee for the police chief job. You can see where they’re coming from. At least I can, because they’ve been getting some flak for the decision they took. As I see it, if you know you’re in a setup, the best you can do is walk [...]