Has the year 2021 been a “lost” year because of Covid? And similarly 2020? Certainly the rate of economic growth faltered. Yet, purely from this perspective, this was perhaps not such...

In a contemporary classic textbook published twenty years ago, Canadian Sociologist David J. Cheal writes about the sociology of family life, impressively combining theoretical concepts and empirical...

I never found the right in Malta to be credible when it claims that the Labour Party benefits from a “natural” (or embedded) hardcore vote that is greater than that of the PN. I do not...

“I feel absolute disgust, it sickens me - the government is laughing at us”. These were the comments of a Yorkshire man who because of COVID regulations was unable to visit his elderly...

Silvio Meli  The Philosophy of Law: A Brief Introduction Kite Group 2020, xxx+218 pages,  Foreword by Rev. Dr Mark Montebello op   The pandemic having normalised off-site...

It has been more than 10 years since the publication of the report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Anan. One of its main recommendations was to end...

I can remember with clarity the day I first came to know Michael Mallia, who died this week. It was 20 August 1994, a very hot day. For the first and only time in my life I had to conduct three...

Our impression is that Robert Abela’s favourite way of keeping fit is to run on the treadmill.  Running on the spot, sweating and believing that the image on his monitor is where he really...

One of the things which vividly struck me during 2021 was an episode which happened on Valentine’s Day. A young couple had decided to rent a hotel room for the occasion and decided to smoke...

An idea that’s been doing the rounds regarding how elections to the European Parliament should be staged is for transnational electoral districts to be established – constituencies that...