I am sorry I have neglected this channel of communications with you for a few months now. There are a few reasons for this, but the main one is that time moves differently in a campaign. Eight weeks compress easily to feel like a couple of weeks, and this is exacerbated by the sinking feeling that…

This morning I dreamt of storey-high murals, with the words “fight for joy” painted in letters taller than me. They commanded attention from the people in cars and buses that passed by. Pedestrians and cyclists could stop to think more about the phrase. What does joy mean, and how do we fight for it? This dream…

It’s me again, my last e-mail in November, a review of “A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family’s call for Justice” by Paul Caruana Galizia, was also published on Lovin Malta. (Grammatical mistakes and confusing subject line included). Fighting cynicism I haven’t been able to write anything since then, not for lack of interesting political events…

Open this one when you get to your desks and slowly settle into your day.  It’s nearing 6am, as night turns to day I hear the first bus of the morning pick-up passengers at the bus stop outside. The windows of the wooden balcony are open, this unfortunately lets mosquitoes and noise in, but it’s…