The need for a decent basic income is an all-time issue among those who have a social conscience. However, it assumes more importance in times like these, when prices of essential goods are spiralling...

The wave of euphoria that accompanied here in Malta the election of Roberta Metsola to the presidency of the European Parliament lasted but one day, and not even that. On news services around the...

If there is anything that Labour, PL, in all its administrations and projections cannot endure it is being told what to do by the Opposition, PN, or, whomever in the mind of the PL anarchists, they...

Space has terrific potential as a new economic niche and we want to do something about that. The space ecosystem already plays a fundamental role in our everyday lives.  Many of the services...

Since the pandemic has been raging, governments everywhere had little choice if they intended to ensure their economy would stay afloat: they needed to open the gates of their treasuries and channel...

Over 2000 years ago, the Jewish sage Hillel warned us: “He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.” During this Covid crisis, Pope Francis re-echoes Hillel’s warning, when he says:...

Over the years it became very clear that two models were competing with each other about how Gozo’s development strategy should be conducted. One focussed on the need to preserve as much as...

“What I can say is that, maybe without precedent, in these last two years we have not had a single, not a single episode of bad governance,” Prime Minister Robert Abela boldly...

Climate change is nature’s reaction to the cumulative impacts it has sustained as a result of human behaviour over the years. Long periods of drought or intensive rainfall leading to flooding,...

In the 1970s, when Dom Mintoff was setting up Air Malta, some Nationalists came up with a doggerell children used to sing “Ghasfur tac-comb itir” This caused, as I remember, a huge...