The distinction between streets and roads may not mean much to many. The hybrid stroad is the imposition of the nature of the road on that of the street, and with Malta’s building sprawl and...

On a stormy December night in 1989, the leaders of the world’s two superpowers were in Malta. On the Russian cruiseship Maxim Gorky, they ended the Cold War. They ushered a new era of...

Journalists preach a lot about the need to modernise society, to rend the cobwebs of the past, to let in the fresh air. It’s not just columnists; it’s the editorial slant of at least three...

Reading through the media court reports on the Qormi murder earlier this week confirms that the police in Malta can carry out crime investigations assiduously and bring them to their logical...

It is maybe too early to draw up a balance sheet for Labour’s time in office under two prime ministers. Or maybe not early at all. What has Labour to show for its years in power?  The...

By means of a very interesting expedition which was been happening in the last months, structures of a prehistoric nature at Xrobb l-Għaġin were uncovered in a project that is the first of...

They’ve started slowly slowly, but I will not be surprised when they start picking up fast. For it cannot be otherwise if Europe is going to cope with the cuts in the supply of gas that are...

The same Maltese society which frequently protests and criticizes overdevelopment, is the same Maltese society in which investment in property is widespread. I find this contradiction one of the...

In 2019 the Faculty for Social Wellbeing made a break-through research which revealed that 43% of people over the age of 11 suffered from loneliness. This study, which I conducted with my colleagues...

Transnational organized crime is seamless on land, air and sea, but mostly sea. According to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (The Global Illicit Economy – 11 March...