This is beyond 'Red/Blue/Green' petty arguments, This is bigger than 'if you don't side with my 'team' then you can't be my friend', This has left 'my party is better than yours' so far behind, that it can't be seen in our rear-view mirror. This is now about living in a democracy. As a Prime … Continue reading Resign-O Girl

Just preempting those who will inevitably yell 'PHOTOSHOP FAKE NEWS PHOTOSHOP'. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like a duck - chances are it's a feckin' duck. #OccamsRazor

“Maa how brave you are” people told me when I resigned my post on the Manoel Theatre Board and publicly voiced my reasons why. “Maa how brave you are” they said again when I ranted on Facebook about the awfulness that is our public transport system. “Maaa how brave you are” they declared once more … Continue reading Brave New World

This is serious, guys. This is a direct affront to our freedom of expression. We will be asked to REGISTER our blogs. With the Government. Or else be fined. Simply put - what if the Government doesn't like what we have to say? What's to stop It from prosecuting us and denying us a platform … Continue reading What’s Next? The Thought Police?

Ah Nostalgia. What a double-edged sword. I look back on my childhood wistfully – sun-dappled mornings in Marsalforn, long languid days spent snorkelling, swimming till our fingers turned into prunes, guzzling grapes at the water’s edge – feet dangling in the cool blue Mediterranean Sea, salt-cracked skin, long afternoon naps lazily brushing away the slow-green-persistent … Continue reading Nostalgia

https://youtu.be/CgBA3BG1y68 With sincere apologies to Messers Gilbert & Sullivan (This was recorded on my phone -so quality ain't great!) He is the very model of a modern major Minister His courtly threats of ‘axing us’ have now become quite sinister He lives in an apartment of a friend of his who is quite bent In … Continue reading He is the Very Model of a Modern Major Minister

Here's one I wrote back in August 2015. I had posted it on the facebook forum Women for Women - it garnered quite a response. I thought I'd reproduce it here.  The first time it happened I was very young, around 10 years old. A hyperactive tomboy - always on the go, always singing, always … Continue reading Why I Didn’t Speak Up

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“Well, at least he’s not Trump”, a friend said to me yesterday while we were, for a change (haha), discussing local politics. ‘He’ being our Prime-Minister Dr Joseph Muscat. “True dat”, I said to myself (because when I talk to myself I’m always a 90s Gangsta). At least ‘He’ hasn’t blocked people from certain nations … Continue reading At Least He’s Not Trump

Post-Truth. Post-Fact. Half-Truths. Alt-Truth. Fake-News. Call it what you will – just don’t call it ‘LIES’. We’ve all railed at 2016 for taking from us many loved and admired actors and musicians; however, the reality is that the Grim Reaper seems to have inexorably wielded his scythe over The Truth too. It started with Brexit … Continue reading Schrödinger’s Facts