Necessarily, given the times we’re living in, great attention is being given to the uncertainties that are accumulating. In “normal” times, many of the changes that occur are well...

In 2015, Bill Gates delivered a TED lecture in which he said that the next crisis to hit humanity would not be military but medical. He explicitly said, five years ago, that the next crisis would...

Covid-19 has brought the country to a standstill. We are not isolated from nature and its forces at work around us. We are not immune, not just from viruses, but from the forces of nature. Today...

It’s strange how the mythical stories of old have so much to teach and lead us; yet all we do is ignore them and never learn. The Babylonians, in a very fantastical past, tried to build a...

I live in a very old house and these past days especially I have found myself staring at the ceiling slabs (xorok) and the walls and thinking about the people who so many years ago hand-carved...

As we ambled rather unconsciously through the events that were shaping Malta in the past decade and with stronger determination over the last 7 years, little did we know that all that we had ignored,...

At a time when Malta is fighting the spread of COVID-19, different ministries have come together to collaborate on initiatives to help in combating this pandemic, but also to ensure that the Health...

Less than two months ago, the economic forecast was that though the situation could have been better, still Europe and the rest of the world could expect economic growth that would be sufficiently...

I caught up with Dr Claire Azzopardi Lane who heads the Department of Disability Studies at the Faculty for Social Wellbeing. Her research interests focus on the sexuality of persons with disability,...

This week it is planned that the European Parliament will be voting in plenary but at a distance. MEPs are expected as much as possible not to travel and to vote while remaining in their own country....