“Today is a crucial milestone,” Robert Abela bombastically declared, “we’ve made history”.  More than seven months after his government attempted to ram an abortion...

The environmental deficit is increasing at a fast rate. We are approaching the point of environmental bankruptcy, from which there is no turning back. This is the whole point of the nature restoration...

In a space of one week, we have been hit by at least two stories which have continued to undermine peoples’ lack of trust in the direction the country has taken. First we had the out of...

Language and music have always played integral roles in expressing cultural identity and forging deep connections between people. In the case of Malta, a captivating Mediterranean nation with a rich...

Last week Malta carried out legal changes through which abortion is now permitted if a woman’s life is in danger. Parliament supported this unanimously, and the President duly approved. Hence,...

The recent riots in France were perhaps the most damaging in a country where over the years, riots and vigorous street protests are accepted as part of the “normal” scenario that defines...

Over the last months and years, market conditions for the sale of newspapers have not changed at all. Sales have continued to dip. Shops that previously used to sell big quantities of newspapers have...

The conflict in Ukraine raises several issues, internationally and locally. First, it concerns a threat to freedom of expression not only in Russia vis-à-vis the press who cannot hear the...

Rebekah Borg is the Opposition’s spokesperson for the Lands Authority.  She’s a PN MP.  But you’d think she was Labour, listening to her car-crash interview with Andrew...

Since the French Revolution, Europe has experienced a slow but steady de-Christianisation that led leading intellectuals to claim that once God is dead everything is permitted.  But this is not...