We are continuously surrounded by political and social messages which bid us to be “positive”. In this way, we’re told, society will be enabled to recognize and face arising...

Tomorrow, Malta is hosting the 13th Meeting of the Arraiolos Group. This is an annual forum of the non-executive Presidents of the European Union. The Malta Meeting is the largest Arraiolos meeting to...

This is indeed a good day for 16- and 17-year-olds.  It was unfortunate that the debate had stopped snappishly during the previous legislature.  It is true that granting young people...

The need for adequate traffic management is apparently, at last, very high on the list of matters preoccupying the Maltese public. The solutions to the problems we face, however, depend on the...

Of course, on a daily basis, people face a wide range of personal issues.  Some pussyfoot around their daily struggles; others nip in the bud their catch-22s.  Yet others are forced to face...

As if we hadn’t had enough enlightenment and political fodder to masticate throughout most of this summer, beginning of course with an early June general election, Nationalist MP Karol...

Even after the Maltese attained political independence, after they phased out the British military base and after they entered the EU as a full member, the ties between the island and the UK remained...

Until recently, a number of leadership elections of our two main parties were characterised by a candidate being backed by the establishment and by another who would be representing the...

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate...

Over the past few weeks, I have been campaigning for ‘a new way’ in politics. To some, that may seem vague and to others it may even seem scary, but I believe it is what is needed to...