The prognosis for journalists reporting things that displease tyrants like Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko is never better than dim. But the outrage of what has happened in our Europe in the last day or two is a new extreme. Roman Protasevich was flying from one EU city to another on a Ryanair flight. The plane he [...]

Manuel Delia · Planners For Modernity The chief planner’s interview with the Times of Malta yesterday makes for depressing reading. Martin Saliba dismisses as ‘sentimental’ and ‘nostalgic’ the effort of isolated and ignored campaigners to push back against the wilful destruction of our urban and rural landscape. His arguments are replete with contradictions. He has [...]

An amnesia is a form of memory loss. Some people with amnesia have difficulty forming new memories. Others cannot recall facts or past experiences. People with amnesia usually retain the knowledge of their own identity, as well as motor skills. Mild memory loss is a normal part of ageing. Amnesia refers to the loss of [...]

When a large majority of a community becomes immune to a disease, making the spread of disease from person to person unlikely, we use the expression “herd immunity”. The meaning I would like to give to this expression in this post is quite different. I feel that in our society, we have reached this level of herd [...]