Новости за 19.09.2021

For a few months in spring last year, toilet paper became a Soviet-style, deficit staple. Supermarket shelves were emptied, prices went up and hoarding set in, exacerbating both deficits and hoarding in a self-feeding loop until we had to realise that the pandemic did neither close supermarkets, nor did it boost our storage capacities at home or our digestive systems. Today, 18 months later, entire economies go the way of the loo roll. Prices for pretty much everything go through the roof and ever more items are in deficit. Читать дальше...

Let’s say Doc from Back to the Future came up to you this morning, with his frazzled grey hair, white lab coat and mad eyes, and, while you spluttered on your coffee, he offered you a trip in his time-travelling machine. There’s one condition though: you can either choose to visit the past or the future, not both. Where would you go? Without a shadow of a doubt, I’d jump straight to the past, the remote past. I’m utterly fascinated by prehistory. What were ‘Maltese’ people like then? Is there any semblance of them in us? Читать дальше...

HIBERNIANS 3 Degabriele 19; Vella 50; Grech 56 pen MOSTA 2 Failla 86 pen; Donkin 90 HIBERNIANS I.  Kone-6, F. Apap-6,  L. Almeida-6, Raphael-6 (77 A. Attard), J. Grech-7 (82 T. Tabone Desira), J. Degabriele-6 (74 B. Kristensen), D. Vella-6.5, Thaylor-6.5 (81 Z. Grech), A. Agius-6, G. Artiles-5.5, W. Domoraud-5 (82 F. Mensah). MOSTA M. Jovicic-5, R. Briffa-5 (79 N. Aguis), C.Ememe-4, C. Failla-5.5, J. Nsumoh-6 (79 J. Vassallo), T. Farrugia-5.5, I. Doric-5.5, M. Hetemaj-5, Z. Brincat-5 (79 L. Читать дальше...