Imagine I once had a boxing bout with Muhammad Ali, whom oldsters like me also knew as Cassius Clay. He’d have pulverised me. On a scale of 1 to 100, puny silly me would have lost by 100. And...

They will probably pooh-pooh the whole thing, but if I were the government I would be worried about last Sunday’s pro-trees protest in Attard. Apart from festa band marches, nothing but...

A while ago we thought Malta had joined the rest of the world when we got the Divorce Act up and running and then we hit mega heights with all the civil rights in the LGBT community.  You could...

“Whether he likes it or not, the plaintiff (Jason Azzopardi) must carry the political responsibility for that which took place under his watch.” This week Mr. Justice Anthony Ellul...

There can no longer be any doubt that the Brexit issue has now reached a very dangerous cliff edge. On their part, the “Europeans” are tied to the position that they will not change...

In July 2015 Malta’s Strategic Plan for Environment and Development [SPED] was published. The SPED was to replace the Structure Plan that had been the adopted overarching guiding policy on...

For me, it was quite moving to watch recently on the website of a local paper a short video of Sliema in the mid-fifties. Most of all it shows has disappeared completely. Yet I realized how well I...

I am not a psychologist, and do not pretend to be one. But, simply out of empathy and common sense, I can understand how he must be feeling now. After the international fiasco – even though he...

The health problems we face by being overweight are not resolved by changing our wardrobe or loosening our belt but by going on a reasonable diet. And it is the same with our roads. Addressing traffic...

Journalists don’t have seasons, of course. But there are barren patches during the year, particularly the hot summer months, when they can somehow scrape out a proper holiday, more often than...