One of the claims that have been made since the Covid-19 pandemic struck and which seemed to me to be rather curious went as follows: Measures introduced by governments to keep people at home and not...

This article is not about the unfortunate lack of enforcement with regard to some ‘restaurants’ that are acting as hubs for booze gatherings, with no sense of social distancing. Such...

‘I am like any other mother who comforts her children. I want my heart to grow so that I can love them even more’.  – Sr Adele. Last Saturday during my radio show on 103...

It has often been said that a crisis brings out the true nature of people. I don’t know how much of that is true, but reading Alfred Sant’s proposal to do away with intellectual property...

There do remain things to be done, but independently of what those who prefer to paint it all black say, matters have improved quite substantially. It has been obvious that Malta’s international...

Philosophy in Maltese is not a usual occurrence. Joe Friggieri, Mark Montebello OP, and Anton Sammut, say, have written a few books; I did my bit with the late Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici (who sadly...

The more Robert Abela brags that “the institutions are working” the longer doubts linger on. In a situation of normalcy, which we have a right to, there is no room for a Prime Minister...

If I could direct a cartoon artist for today’s issue, I would tell him to draw Prime Minister Robert Abela in all his monumental build surrounded by a horde of attacking dogs yapping at his...

One day you arrive home and you find that the house is flooded by a water leak.  Some pipe burst and water is flowing out into the kitchen and around the house and all the furniture is getting...

  It does not take you much time taking care of the portfolio of Research and Innovation to realise that University is indeed a giant, by our standards, in this field.  Over time it has...