Tag: Intellectuals
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Malta needs a counter-culture intellectual movement: or else we will become another Dubai
Malta’s system of government is rapidly evolving into an illiberal regime and one of the underlying factors that is enabling this process is the manipulation of public discourse and the free press. This process is not fulfilled in isolation – it needs the constant and active collaboration of editors, academics and intellectuals. The government has…
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The new intellectual aristocracy
Finance Minister Clyde Caruana didn’t put much resistance to extravagant claims for additional remuneration by the lecturers of the University of Malta – and it is not in his interest to do so. The Finance Minister himself also lectures at the University of Malta and like many other politicians will benefit from the revolving door…
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Labour’s war against its intellectuals has cost the country history and culture
The process that stifled free thought in the Labour Party came gradually but very effectively as a result of the 2019 national and political crisis. Today, the Labour Party is experiencing the negative effects of its own authoritarianism and criminality by lacking the culture and intellectuals a party needs to express its history in the…
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It turns out that Olvin Vella is an official fraud
It’s incredible what total frauds many of our academics have turned out to be. Currently, Maltese academics are the most efficient lackeys of the Government. Olvin Vella has always been like this – fraudulently wheeling and dealing with different government administrations to pursue his interests. Many of them are like him and I know them…
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Why the Labour Party has no historians
Excluding Ray Mangion, the desperate sexual predator who would jump on any bandwagon passing by in fear of being left in the dust of irrelevance, the Labour Party is currently bereft of historians and the reason is obvious. No sane and rational historian, unless desperate, would ever risk their career and integrity to obfuscate Labour’s…
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Two salaries for doing jack, but too harpy to buy a VIP pass
At a time when Malta’s state institutions are in crisis, this is what the Labour Party’s pseudo-intelligentsia is preoccupied about. Apparently, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and the Head of the Department of History, Dominic Fenech is disappointed that he can’t find a comfortable seat at the departures area of Malta’s International Airport.…
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The father’s-kiddy kid tries to patronise an adult man
Robert Abela has just insulted the intellectuals, authors, academics, journalists, the whole press and the publishing industry just to insult Robert Aquilina and mysef. I am boarding my flight and I can’t write a proper reply, but I find this incredibly amusing, so I will be brief. This little kid and father’s child who grew…
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What intellectuals?
Desmond ?ammit Marmara had an article in the Times arguing that the Labour Party has many opportunists and no intellectuals, however, Desmond conveniently fails to mention that the intellectuals of the Labour Party are the biggest opportunists in Labour. Let’s for argument’s sake say that the Labour Party lacks good intellectuals, why wouldn’t this be obvious…
