In my younger days, a silly song related how video had killed the radio star. Poor radio guy. Today we have moved into different realms of communication, and something worse has been executed: satire...

I’ve been long wanting to write (again) about Brexit with events stumbling over each other as the dreaded date of Halloween draws near and the concomitant fear of a no-deal Brexit...

In Greek mythology the Hydra (or Lernaean hydra) was a serpent-like monster. According to Theogony 313, the Hydra is the child of Typhon and Echidna. The Hydra had many heads. If you cut off one hydra...

Over the last six years, the public service has seen a significant improvement, both in its procedures and the way it serves the public. The ceremony with the theme, ‘Towards a Service of...

The networks constituted by friends of friends never seem to cease their activity, some for the better, most times for the worst. They exist in all that men and women do, because it is in our nature...

Last Saturday another press conference was held in relation to the government’s plans to increase the area of the Ta’Qali National Park. The project would see a sizeable portion of land...

However it is curious that in today’s circumstances, the fact remains that compared to how I remember it did register in the past, the inflation rate is relatively low. Up to August this year,...

As my friend Trevor Zahra was telling a section of the Maltese Language media the other day, during the past decade or so it has become fashionable to expressly describe Malta as a bilingual nation,...

I have to admit I am an incurable Romantic. It happens to me often that I hear people speaking in Maltese, and I go through a sort of out-of-body experience. I forget I'm Maltese and I listen as if I...

Malta’s current Waste Management Plan is entitled ‘A Resource Management Approach’. This is not simply a fancy title – it encapsulates the underlying philosophy for the...