The government talks about green spaces with the confidence of an administration that believes its rhetoric will stand unchallenged. Week after week, Prime Minister Robert Abela paints a picture of a...

 "What are the dates this weekend?" the teacher announced innocently. Within seconds, the classroom exploded with shrieking out of control pupils, all shouting "six-seveeeen", while...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we do things, how we interact with others, but also what we know about ourselves.  It's already a tired cliché.  This fourth...

It is way too convenient to resort to empty platitudes when in distress. At best, the strategy betrays a sense of urgency to distract or create a tactic of misdirection. Sadly, however, it is as plain...

Automatic enrolment (AE) will bring more people into retirement saving. That is welcome. But participation alone does not deliver security. An AE system earns trust when savers can clearly see how...

Malta has experienced a progressive degradation of the environment over the last years. Last  October, we had a raging public controversy of unprecedented proportions when parliament,...

The flavour of the week undoubtedly was Roderick Galdes, chosen by Robert Abela to help people get affordable housing, who turned out to have purchased a duplex penthouse in Ta' Gelmus, Rabat Gozo for...

Last Monday, Parliamentary Secretary Alison Zerafa Civelli and I moved forward a bill to officially enshrine Valletta as Malta's capital city, as well as to formally designate 27 December as the...

There is a growing (and I think correct) belief that more and more of decisions being taken are based on false information. Indeed, beyond that, programmed efforts are being sustained to spread false...

Malta struggles with traffic, but the genuine crisis hides in the details that shape every journey. Anyone who drives across Malta and Gozo meets the same catalogue of failure: faded lines, unlit...