Malta’s great leap forward on LGBTIQ+ rights transformed it from conservative backwater to global leader in under a decade. Is Europride an occasion to look back and celebrate, or is the fight still on? JAMES DEBONO discusses the epochal changes and future challenges with sociologist Angele Deguara and activist Alex Caruana
You can no doubt guess for yourselves; but I’ll leave you with a small hint all the same: “Nine letters, starts with a ‘B’; can be smelt in Parliament a lot, these days.”
Voters worried about corruption, inequalities and environmental degradation are now more likely to protest by not voting rather than support a PN obsessed by culture wars with no bearing on daily life