According to the latest Wellbeing-INDEX, we are more satisfied than ever but suffer from negative emotions like stress and loneliness. If anything, this is quite an incomprehensible paradox, sort...

This newspaper has reported on 23 April 2026 that government is planning to introduce a metro line in Malta. This line will be designated as the 'La Valette Line'. Without entering into the...

For years, Malta cultivated a comfortable illusion. Policymakers spoke of quality tourism while celebrating record arrivals, and the language sounded refined even as the reality remained blunt. Growth...

A public discussion at this time about the Maltese language - now and in the future - makes sense. One notes with great satisfaction how the need for the language to be cared for and given support, is...

Donald J Trump finally succeeded.  He skillfully brought about regime change - not in Iran, but in Orban's Hungary.  On the eve of the general election, Trump attempted to bribe the good...

I am disabled. I will say it plainly. It is safer for me to walk on the road than on the pavement. That should not be a sentence anyone writes in 2026. It is true for me, for the elderly, for mothers...

The richest five men in the world have doubled their fortunes over the last five years, while close to five billion people have become poorer.  A couple of weeks ago, the Central Bank of Malta...

Recent decades reveal a widening disparity between Gozo's infrastructure goals and its actual accomplishments. The island did not meet its ambitions; it missed opportunities, and announced investments...

Examinations are often treated as a straightforward measure of academic ability, yet in reality they represent a complex intersection of knowledge, psychological resilience, and external...

This week the Ministry for Education launched a new National Homework Policy. Homework surfaces quite often on the national agenda, for the right or wrong reasons. Some parents complain that they are...