During the 2008-2012 financial crisis, huge efforts were deployed to prevent banks from collapsing. They succeeded. It was decided that banks should be monitored to ensure that there would be early...

On 29 July 2022, I had published in this newspaper an article entitled ‘The Culture of Impunity – One Year On’. In that article I complained that the Daphne Caruana Galizia...

The poll that Labour never expected arrived: “PN ahead for first time in 15 years”. That must have hurt. The false aura of Labour’s invincibility has evaporated - the bubble burst....

The year was 1968. American biologist John Calhoun (1917–1995) started his 25th take on an experiment – at the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland – that consisted of a...

Karl Lauterbach, the German Health Minister, in the past days chose to spend his summer holidays in Italy. Like all of us, he had to deal with the extraordinary temperatures of the past days. On the...

There’s a post on TikTok that compares what people are saying now and what they said in other times. This particular one quotes One News and what it had to say in recent weeks when cables...

I had the privilege of visiting the gardens of Villa Frere to witness first hand the impressive works that are rejuvenating this historical treasure. Accompanied by the top management of Heritage...

There can be no doubt: world wide, the US is one of the most beautiful and interesting countries and this in many of the meanings by which such qualities can be considered and appreciated. I always...

A discussion about the Maltese identity is not meanginless, as some would like to pretend. It highlights how we should consider ourselves as a community, and what makes us similar to or different from...

Professor Arnold Cassola is a regular complainant to the Office of the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life. Through these public-spirited complaints, the Commissioner is requested to investigate...