This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in yesterday’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. As I sat down to type, the news reached Rue De Bragance that Sliema Water Polo Club has won a crucial game against Neptunes. I don’t really dig water polo, and beyond a fetishist support for Otters ASC, I usually…

  Five months ago I spoke (Of Leopards and their Spots) about the contradictory messages that were being sent out regarding the legality or otherwise of the various gambling machines that had cropped up around the island: First we had an article discussing recommendations made by Parliament’s Social Affairs Committee with regard to illegal gamning…

Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson is back in the news after his spoof Volkswagen Scirocco ad touched a raw nerve among the “politically correct” crowd. Ok. The ad DOES draw on WWII memories with German tanks overrunning Warsaw… but please… a joke’s a joke… some people really need to get a life!

“Gib li trid. Tridx iggib ir-ritratt fuq il-blogg? Tridx tikteb li trid?” – R. Camenzuli LL.D.  ( Rabid Lawyers Abroad)

Two op articles this weekend (Josanne Cassar and Mark Anthony Falzon) dealt with noise pollution in Malta and our inability to control any of it. One particular form of noise pollution is a direct result of neanderthals “pimping” their car in order to get a growl out of their silencer presumably to give the energumen…

I have decided to start writing this article midweek rather than my usual last minute rush. What prompted this midweek fervour was the blackout that part of the islands depending on Melita suffered for approximately six hours. I’ve already written about how strange it is to be able to observe the silence of an island…