Like me, you might not be partial to the scheme by which so-called golden passports are issued to foreign citizens, so that they become “Maltese”,  after they have paid in funds...

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is necessary if we are to address climate change effectively. In Paris, in 2015, it was agreed by all that limiting global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius...

Former Trump advisor, Stephen Bannon, refused to testify before of the special House Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol. Did the committee just let him off? Did they...

After weeks, if not months, of national uncertainty over the date of the election, Robert Abela left it till the very last day by which he could have gone to the country by the end of November to tell...

The soap opera that is Konrad Mizzi will soon become a part of our national culture and the lessons on how to be Konrad will probably begin to feature in the school curriculum. Some lessons may...

One of the things that you quickly learn from the moment you are entrusted with an executive role, be that on a local or national level, is that access to finance is essential.  Not all reforms...

Populism has become the most decried political ideology. Across a wide political spectrum runnning from the right of centre, centre right to the hard left, no one likes to be called a populist. Its...

In a recent tweet, Sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo wrote the following: “Noncredentialism (i.e., your contribution is valuable regardless of professional credentials) is a trend far broader than the...

Last week we had another European Council in Brussels. This time the matter on leader’s agenda was the exorbitant rise in the price of natural methane. Most European consumers are facing...

Decentralization happens when in a given political system, public administration is run not from an overall central point but from several, so that citizens will perceive the operations of the state...