“This is another success story,” Konrad Mizzi boasted on 23 March 2019. Air Malta, he bragged, returned to profitability after two decades. Mizzi falsely claimed the company registered...

Is democracy inherently chaotic? Or is it just the pandemic? Let’s try to answer by analysing a pressing problem: climate change. A year ago almost to the day – on January 19,...

The resignation of David Thake is a positive step.  It takes courage to admit to having acted incorrectly and shoulder the political responsibility for your actions. There are others who should...

Our attention span being what it is, our mind flips from issue to issue but many issues fall beneath our radar and are instantly forgotten when many times they are what we should be focusing...

Why is it, that so many important reports published by government departments and ministries give you that “Bogdanovic” feeling?  That is, you get a sense that the document is not an...

One of the questions which is most frequently being posed, either directly or indirectly, in the various opinion articles and editorials is:  how do we want our economy to grow?  The...

Since the Covid-19 pandemic struck, its economic impacts have been multiple. They just kept spreading. The most important first impact resulted from the steep decline in demand; for several sectors,...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce yesterday joined the voices of support to the PN’s initiative to kick start legislative change to make politicians in Malta more accountable to their actions across...

We should all learn from what has happened over the years in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq and other so called post-conflict countries. They show how pointless and painful it is for military powers...

Perhaps the biggest problem we have with the running of our institutions is complacency – the belief that we know best how well we do things. We have inherited much that was quite good, we...