Last weekend, the Italian geopolitical review LIMES organised its 9th Geopolitics Festival, at Genoa’s majestic Doge’s Palace – the Doge was the sovereign of the now-defunct Genoese...

This week, the two tapestries, forming part of a set of twenty-nine originally commissioned by Grand Master Ramon Perellos y Roccaful returned back to Malta from Brussels. These were...

A number of uncertainties are enveloping economies at present but the suspicion is that the major uncertaint will after all end up being inflation. Frankly it is dicey whether much trust should be...

Some recent issues can help us understand challenges, opportunities and constraints faced by Malta’s environmental movement. The Ħondoq victory, led by the charismatic Paul Buttigieg,...

This year opened on a positive note when the major nuclear powers (US, Russia, China, France and the UK) declared solemnly together that “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be...

Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was one of a kind.  I have never met anyone like him throughout my life. I want to declare things upfront: I am totally biased in favour of Karmenu because I have seen...

The rules that have been introduced in the sense that high offices of the state have to be endorsed by a two thirds parliamentary vote in favour have started to deliver results. As expected, they have...

Malta is approaching a critical tipping point - a juncture at which our environment, society, politics all change irreversibly. We face the unprecedented responsibility of sticking our necks out to...

Our vote is much more powerful than we can ever imagine. Our electoral system provides for a transferability of the votes cast through a system of preferences. Our electoral system is in fact known as...

It is no secret that small-scale fishing plays an important role, both in our country’s historical and cultural fabric, as well as our socio-economic status in the present day. Additionally, our...