We are told that we need to convince today's child-bearing generation to have children, at least three of them, instead of adopting cats and dogs. While it may come across as patronising to impose...

How embarrassing it must be for our new Minister for Film to be lumped with a Film Commissioner who is a walking, flashing, unpredictable box of tricks, which sadly, it appears, neither he can rein in...

Last Sunday, Robert Abela, at Kordin, bid farewell to accountability and good governance. This has been coming for a long time, but now it has reached the point of no return. It was an arrogant Robert...

I can still remember it, as if it was yesterday. During one of those surreal sittings of the Public Accounts Committee which I chair, Keith Schembri had reminisced how Konrad Mizzi, half-jokingly, had...

When you hear "health education," it probably conjures up old memories of cursory lessons on puberty or maybe sex education. Perhaps you had some nutrition lessons here and there. But...

The latest news as we slept last night regarded the complicated agreement to release a number of Israelis in the hands of Hamas since 7 October 2023 in exchange with a superior number of Palestinians...

Five years ago, Robert Abela was elected Labour Party leader and became Malta's Prime Minister. Last Sunday, in Paola, we celebrated this occasion. It was a remarkable occasion. A large, enthusiastic,...

The coming elections in Germany could be much more important than is assumed. Whatever one says about the EU, it is France and Germany which really guide its decisions. In the wake of the failed...

The PN is proposing a new law that would require employers to have a zero-tolerance approach to workplace bullying. In a 2022 OPM manual issued by the People & Standards Division and entitled...

There came curious reactions from the US Congress to the idea put forward by President-elect Trump for the countries of the West to increase their expenditures on military defence to 5 per cent of...