It’s been six years since Daphne Caruana Galizia’s brutal assassination.  And nothing’s changed. Everything the public inquiry identified as a contributing cause of that...

Everything is connected. The health of the planet is also reflected in our health. Pope Francis, in his Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, published last week, joined environmental...

It’s 9/11 again and worse. Pearl Harbour and worse. For in neither of these two catastrophes was there this direct savagery. It was nothing else than a pogrom, such as had been the fate of...

Malta is set to be the first country in the whole European Union where a person at the age of sixteen has the possibility to not only vote and stand for Local Council election, but also, if he or she...

For those who like I do, remember the launching of Air Malta and how during its first years of existence the project was run courageously and prudently, the company’s demise – long...

Populism is again gaining support in Europe and this goes beyond the increase in right wing govenrments that has taken place recently. Even so, I doubt whether populist parties will do any better at...

Justice has many facets. It can take the guise of reasonableness, proportionality, equity, equality, and other features. One of those characteristics less known and less discussed in legal literature...

Pierre Fenech, Labour’s ITS CEO, is notorious. He’s the “Pierre ITS” who Rosianne Cutajar resorted to when she wanted a phantom job to pig out like all the rest. He’s the...

In the past few days, government, once more, through various Ministers, has sought to normalise clientelism. Each Ministry, nowadays, has a fully staffed office that is described as a “customer...

Monday’s press conference by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance on the end of Air Malta aimed mainly to mask the refusal by the EU to allow further State aid, the substantial...