When Britain’s Emergency Alert Blared in Malta: Sirens, Memes and Mediterranean Soul-Searching
Valletta’s lunchtime hush was broken at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday by a jarring, siren-like screech that spilled from every passing phone. Tourists lining up for ftira at Is-Suq tal-Belt flinched, and elderly men playing briscola by the Triton Fountain looked up in alarm. It wasn’t an Amber Alert for a missing child in Gozo, nor…