Josanne Cassar

What the people want and the direction the PM is taking us, could not be more different

October 25, 2026 | No comments

It was reported this week that the Labour Party is preparing a wide-ranging listening exercise over the next two years, aimed at gathering public views to inform future policy discussions. It plans to reach around 350,000 voters with various political views, using volunteers, community hubs and technology, although there has been no information on how much it will cost to collate and analyse the data.

Adjusting to the reality of a multicultural world

November 16, 2025 | No comments

The minute New York mayor Zohran Mamdani was elected on the Democratic ticket, social media was awash with an ugly backlash from certain quarters.

Let’s “do something”….by picking on long-time residents

February 27, 2024 | No comments

Every time it receives signals about the electorate’s main concerns, the Labour Government decides to set certain wheels in motion as a sort of gesture, especially to its supporters, to indicate that it is “listening”.

Over-population and the dangers of quoting unreliable sources

August 8, 2023 | No comments

Over the last few weeks, every time someone mentioned over-population I kept seeing the same bizarre numbers being thrown around:

Where do we draw the line with cancel culture?

February 7, 2023 | No comments

This column first appeared in Malta Today While it is true that pop culture and society have undergone massive transformations, […]

One million reasons not to recycle, and a million reasons to complain

November 22, 2022 | No comments

It is pretty apparent that since people discovered that they could use Facebook as a public platform for their woes, it has become “complain central”

Taxi Mary, quite contrary

November 2, 2021 | No comments

Pictured above: White taxis have recently upped their game by introducing their own app This column first appeared in Malta […]

Talk is cheap, donations are easy: but the real challenge is the mentality

October 5, 2021 | No comments

This column first appeared in Malta Today Every time something shocking happens, the platitudes trip off the tongues of politicians […]

Chris Fearne saves the day

April 16, 2019 | No comments

This article first appeared in Malta Today It was a classic case of ‘whodunnit’ and at first we did not […]

Is there a disconnect between the media and the man in the street?

April 12, 2019 | No comments

This article first appeared in Malta Today I have been (silently) following the various conversations since Lassine Souleymane was tragically […]

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