If there is one thing most scientists and doctors agree on, it is that smoking truly kills. It causes cancer not just of the body parts usually connected to smoking, like lungs, but anywhere in the...

Summer of 2020 is churning in its grave.  Originally having been thought to be a write-off and consigned to the history books, it has resolutely risen from the ashes, taken the form of a ghost,...

This Government’s plan for our economy is on the right track, as I had the occasion to explain when this Tuesday in parliament I was answering Parliamentary Questions and delved into the...

The PN has been in this situation before and has managed to find the energy to take the necessary courageous decisions This weekend, we are facing a watershed decision which will shape the future...

The greatest danger for the PN as I see it does not relate to whether they change their current leader or stay with him. Nor is it that they’re likely to lose the coming election and perhaps the...

This week I followed the appeal by the directors of The Malta Independent, Times of Malta, Malta Today and Lovin Malta for government to refrain from implementing the EU audiovisual media...

  Last week's spike in new Covid-19 cases was met with increased disputed between citizens, healthcare workers and organisations, and the state. But Prime Minister Robert Abela us still...

During the last European Council, the contrast... or if you prefer, the distance... between the north and the south of the EU again emerged. Who’s on the north side has a self-image of being...

If there is one subject I have always regretted not having studied, despite digesting plenty of books about it, is linguistics. It is such a fascinating discipline, especially to us Maltese boasting...

Politicians should keep a social distance from big business, always, not only during a pandemic. This was reportedly stated by George Hyzler, the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life earlier this...