How much more can the Palestinians suffer before they instinctively decide to commit national harakiri and rub themselves off this terribly unjust world they were left in by the big, colonial powers?...

The abortion debate is very emotional. Many insults are flying around. Some, unfortunately never learn. The basic premise underlying the abortion debate is identical to that of the divorce...

I think I can compare Marlene Farrugia’s legislative proposal to a similar initiative by Jeffrey Pullicino Orland some years ago regarding, then, divorce. The two parties, engaged in their...

Let’s be honest.  We like short-cuts.  And these days there is a real sense of competition on who will deliver the best, the cheapest and the most efficient short-cuts.  Google,...

There are three main questions which the Steering Group tasked with the drawing up of the National post-pandemic strategy identified as those that we, as a nation, should collectively answer looking...

A traditional pastime of ours, still widely practised, revolves around how to manage to bend rules and regulations currently in force in order to obtain what you desire or more generally to have it...

In a way, this article replicates the main arguments in my article entitled ‘Is Malta facing a political rupture?’ which appeared in the The Malta Independent on 5 March 2020. Back...

This is a debate we often have at the Faculty for Social wellbeing. It is easy to think that with all the money we put into our social benefits and the social sector, the highly committed NGO...

Some two years ago, after discussing with the editors of the Malta Independent, I started writing this weekly column as a bridge with several sectors of society affected by ongoing developments. From...

The Biden administration in the US declared that temporarily, it will be disallowing patent rights charges on vaccines that have been developed to combat Covid-19. The pharmaceutical industry was not...