“Have the courage to use your own reason!” Picture a room in a house in Konigsberg, Prussia on a cold September in 1784. A small, puny and fragile blue-eyed man has just finished penning a short essay called “An answer to the question ‘What is Enlightenment?’”. The man is Immanuel Kant (you may know him…

So Inhobbkom Joseph believes that by “breaking the institutional silence” and getting the three score and some parliamentarians to talk about the problem of rising influx of immigrants we will solve the problem. Gonzi’s posse did not believe that the problem warranted any discussion by parliament (which comes as no surprise seeing the disdain for the…

The Partit Laburista has called for the Maltese Electoral Commission to charter a plane to Cyprus in order to give the Maltese contingent to the (European) Small Nations Games  the chance to vote. Essentially what the PL is requesting is that a whole plane is chartered so that not just the ballot box but also…