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…

It comes as a bit of a surprise that President Obama is currently suffering a downturn in the polls and is as popular as George Bush and Richard Nixon were in the same period in their presidency. This is the period of budgetary planning, health care announcements and more importantly a little bungled issue on…

Today’s Times (print edition) will include the figures relating to the declarations made by the EP candidates to the Electoral Commission. The public (or “the people”, if you want to irritate certain other “people”) will finally get to see how many of the candidates are prepared to exploit the “loophole” (J’accuse disagrees with this loophole…