Do you remember Schindler’s List and similar stories of people who helped the Jews escape the crazy and horrifying hunts during the Second World War? Despite regime propaganda that the superior...

Government has announced its financial package which it described as being a €1.8 billion stimulus package. What is in it for a zero-hours contract worker, the casual worker, the freelance...

I am sure that by today most people have come to their senses and finally realised that the coronavirus malaise is real, is wreaking havoc on people, cities, nations and economies everywhere, and only...

I am the youngest of 5 children and had parents old enough – or so I thought – to be my grandparents. You’d think I was spoilt rotten but nothing of the sort. When I was about seven...

I cannot get over the scenes from Bergamo in Italy. A town I always intended to visit but never got round to do it, though I have been to neighbour Brescia, polenta and all that. The scenes of...

Taking stock of the astounding mortality rate by coronavirus in Italy is really heartbreaking.  As of Wednesday, the virus had killed 2,978 across Italy with the majority in Lombardy region, when...

Today week was the first day when the doors of all schools and eduction institutions remained shut. On Wednesday, we announced that closure of schools is now extended until at least the end of...

The Coronavirus experience presents policymakers with various quandaries on how to best manage risks. In policymaking, every decision has consequences which may also include unintended ones. Policy...

That Julia Farrugia Portelli as a minister and other MPs have been caught in the quarantine net made necessary by the Coronavirus pandemic, is unsurprising. The work of politicians is precisely that...

The sound of the doorbell. We hold our breadth as mum walked down the 23 steps to our door. We lived in a maisonette in a very conspicuous road on the periphery of Birkirkara. I remained upstairs...