bored (adjective) /bΙΛd/ feeling tired and impatient because you have lost interest in somebody/something or because you have nothing to do. – Oxford dictionary But personally, I find that being bored doesn’t come from having nothing to do or because I lost interest in something, but because I have a plethora of things to do, […]
Read More Being BoredThe ever-growing field of student activism has a new organisation to welcome amongst its ranks, the MNSS – Malta Neurological Students’ Society, based at the University of Malta.
Read More A Brand New Face – Malta Neurological Studentsβ SocietyThrough a demonstration occurring this Saturday, 4th December, Extinction Rebellion, alongside other organisations, will put pressure on the government to address the issue of food waste and implement the change necessary to mitigate it.
Read More Stop the Waste: Call to stop Mass Food WasteThis Expo aims to promote international opportunities while encouraging networking with youth organisations.
Read More KNZ’s International Expo 2021In the Budget 2022 document, the government has promised that by October 2022, all Maltese residents will have free access to public transport. But what about the countless issues with the service? Will those who are enticed with the free transport keep using it in the long run?
Read More Free Buses will not get more people to use themπ π²πππ«π¬ ππ π¨ today, a woman was murdered.π π²πππ«π¬ ππ π¨ today, a human being was brutally assassinated.π π²πππ«π¬ ππ π¨ today, a mother, daughter, sister, and wife died.π π²πππ«π¬ ππ π¨ today, the career of an investigative journalist was cut short.π π²πππ«π¬ ππ π¨ today, Malta, as well as its political and institutional landscape, was forever changed. The […]
Read More 4 Years Ago.On the 18th of September, Extinction Rebellion Malta will be protesting in solidarity with the rest of the global climate strike movement and asking our politicians to treat this crisis like the emergency it is.
Read More Code Red: Global Climate StrikeThere is an urgent need to start thinking about how we can run our economies without growth, and a range of economic alternatives may now show us how to do just that.
Read More Can we create Healthy Economies without growth?The justice system is the only mechanism humankind developed to fight the curse of the fifth deadly sin β wrath. β‘ If it doesnβt work, we donβt just lose the system. We lose any attempt at democracy.
Read More Think justice exists in Malta? Think again!There are numerous mental shortcuts we take as human beings. We call these biases and science documents a whole list of them. This article explains how such shortcuts affect elections in Malta, and how I would solve this situation.
Read More Changing voter behaviourThere are disadvantages to living on an island, but the quality of island life can be its own reward. In Europe, life on an island means you can lose your freedom of movement rights.
Read More The unfairness of being on an islandSexual abuse – why should your children be at risk in one European country, but be safe in another?
Read More For the safety of your childrenThey say that the key to success in politics is pulling off a delicate balancing act. This can be applied to any major political party, be it in government or opposition. In terms of the latter, we can certainly apply the art of pulling off a balancing act to the current state of the Nationalist […]
Read More Striking a balanceI have never existed in a time where the current Opposition truly had a purpose. Following the succession of Malta into the European Union, the Party lost its momentum and became complacent. Without any real vision or winning noble cause, they spiralled gradually to then lose the General election a mere ten years later. The […]
Read More A New Age of OppositionOur country is in shambles. Being Maltese is presently not something to boast about beyond our COVID-infested shores. We are Maltese; the ones who βblow journalists upβ, who βsell passportsβ, who βhad most of the Police traffic department arrestedβ, and now, those who harbour COVID-19. The rapid deterioration of the virusβs containment is indeed a […]
Read More The Betrayal Of A CountryβIl-Δ‘urnalisti huma raΔ‘uni ewlenija gΔ§aliex il-Laburisti jibqgΔ§u jiΕΌdiedu fβMaltaβ Robert Musumeci, lawyer, architect and wiseman of Malta informed us a few months back. βMβgΔ§andix bΕΌonn li inti tibgΔ§atli l-mistoqsijiet biex niftaΔ§ magisterial inquiry,β Ian Abdilla, head of the Economic Crimes Unit. βSo when was it opened then?β asked Jacob Borg from the Times of Malta. The […]
Read More Thanks To The FrontlinersWhen we think about poverty, most items that come up in our thoughts tend to be quite common β people suffering from malnutrition, with ragged clothes and no roof over their heads. These are all realities found around the globe.
Read More Social Classes in 2020?We are all aware that China is in the news quite regularly these days, the world over. Be it a squabble with Dangerous Donald, a fistfight on the China-India border, or lockdown in Wuhan; the country has hogged the headlines. What us Westerners find particularly disgruntling about China is its ominous, all-seeing Communist Party; a […]
Read More Chairman Bobβs cultural revolutionWhen I was four years old, I would regularly fight with my beloved younger brother and would sometimes even hit him. He would start crying and my mum would report to the scene, but I would always claim that I had nothing to do with it. Occasionally, I would be short-sighted enough to perpetrate the […]
Read More The Totalitarianism of ToddlersAt a certain point in our lives, we have all come across the word βdemocracyβ and learnt its definition for an exam or other purposes. Democracy is a form of government which gives a voice to the people to the extent that if we take Malta as an example, the Maltese people get to elect the people who they want to represent them in Parliament. With that being said, it is no news that democracyβs worst enemy is apathy.
Read More The importance of youth activismMalta is a particular country; we speak a particular language, we have particular music, but we are also particular in other ways. We are the only European country in which a minister who opened offshore accounts in Panama remains an MP.
Read More Malta, Climate Change, and ActivismAs is the case with Β most calls to innovation in western societies, the main driver behind the growth and development of the open market is the private sector, regardless of legislation or regulation introduced by parliament or government.
Read More Data, AI, and the Expendability of Privacy
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