This is the last Sunday of the year 2019. A new decade descends on us and we are ending the current decade with a horrific taste in our mouth: blood, spattered and left to flow, is the symbol that...

When last February a video surfaced showing a rather disheveled Michelle Muscat prancing about with a champagne bottle in her hand while her husband jumped around like a reveler in a ‘ marċ...

Many things are still shrouded in secrecy, hidden from the light.  The truth, though, has a life and a force of its own, which more often than not, will emerge and become known.  As we...

2019 was a year during which we continued work on the fulfilment of a number of important reforms in both the justice sector, as well as culture. It is impossible to name all, but some...

It is a mystery how right through Europe, Xmas Day has remained a prized holiday. And this after the continent became flagrantly secularised. Now, there hardly is any other holiday with a significance...

Morally, the most difficult moments in political life do not come when you have to respond to the question – whom to back? Such a question just requires a reply which (if it is going to be...

It is Christmas. Should we talk about Joseph Muscat? When three weeks ago I wrote an article called “The Rise and the Fall”, a reader left an interesting comment beneath the online...

634 jf   Public Land: private profits Carmel Cacopardo   The taking up of public land by catering establishments to extend their commercial activity beyond the...

As I sit at my desk trying to keep up with what has been going on in court and attempting (sometimes, without much success) to make sense of it, I find myself wondering in disbelief, asking: Who do...

I consider myself a calm, reasonable, timid, doddering old man: even a bit of a coward. I hate confrontation and I detest making a scene.  So what was I doing, sitting in the middle of the road...