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...

The relentless, seemingly unstoppable, senseless uglification of the country is a phenomenon currently on everybody’s mind. Even His Excellency the President of the (entire) Republic woke up...

The St Vincent de Paul Residence report published last week by the National Audit Office (NAO) is quite long. It can however be described by one sentence: this is what happens when political...

Last Monday Partit Nazzjonalista announced that the clusters project, the brainchild of my fellow MP Claudio Grech, is beginning to bear fruit. In a media presentation with the magnificent and iconic...

For a party in Opposition supposedly preparing to challenge government in a general election in a few months' time after two successive huge defeats, in the midst of a pandemic and with stories about...

There is a very strong mentality in Malta that we must always be making progress.  Children must be educated to pass their exams.  Our consumerism must grow and be seen to have improved...

There are three important questions we have to ask ourselves in the current moment in time, as we are steadfastly looking towards a post-pandemic future. Firstly, how do we improve quality of...