Public support for the far right has swept across the European continent in recent years   ̶   as it has in the USA and Argentina   ̶   fuelling a...

Gozo closes 2025 as it has closed too many years before it: praised for its resilience, admired for its character, and quietly sidelined when national priorities turn into action. Ministers continue...

Much of my parliamentary work has revolved around what defines us as a people and a country. In fact, I believe that Malta and her national heritage are not abstract concepts, but the foundations upon...

I'll end this year's article with the same title I began it with. Thirty articles later, here we are, finally pausing to look back at what actually unfolded. It's that time of the season, when we take...

Bigamy is prohibited by Article 196 of the Maltese Criminal Code. Bigamy and polygamy are two different types of marriage practices, both involving marriages to multiple spouses. In a bigamous...

As I write, online news portals report that a 43-year-old man, in Malta, originally from Cameroon, has been placed under probation after admitting to theft of food from a supermarket for 18 times...

Automatic Enrolment (AE) is more than a financial product.  It is a central pillar of state social policy.  Governments worldwide use behavioural heuristics (mental shortcuts) to nudge...

A day after the conclusion of the all-important EU Council I couldn't find any reference to its conclusions on the Maltese media. There's a book which says 'What happens in Brussels stays in...

I look back at the year that is about to end with deep satisfaction. In culture, the arts, and in matters relating to government-owned land, we have done a great deal of good. It is not only I...

There's absolutely no contradiction in simultaneously showing the deepest solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza and with the Jewish community of Bondi/Sydney in Australia. In both their...