Some people in Europe are arguing about the usefuness of the system by which as winter approaches, we put our clocks an hour back. So, dawn arrives “earlier”, and equally dusk. We have...

I found this article incredibly hard to write.  Losing Jacqui is more than just bereaving a colleague.  As Dean of this lovely Faculty, numbering hundreds in academic and...

Halloween is a secular festival.  It is characterised by children’s parties, teenagers in gruesome costumes and others believed to engage in macabre spiritual activities.  Halloween is...

No matter what the outcome of the American presidential elections, this has been the most dangerous campaign in the US for generations. It has highlighted and reinforced the social and political...

Last Wednesday, I attended an extremely interesting lecture given by the EU Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta. The lecture...

After slipping and sliding away from what they clearly consider to be media intrusion into their plots and schemes to wrest a sinecure of hundreds of millions of euros a year for 30 years, from the...

The movement of history is not a linear one but one that develops in fits and starts. You can go for a long period and nothing happens and then everything happens all at once. Then there is a gear...

Malta’s climate offers up a small but essential feature of our daily life – running around in flip flops for around half of the year or more.  This little luxury has the effect of...

Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar (FAA) coordinator Astrid Vella said that she did not endorse what the Labour Party was promising in its 2013 general election manifesto with regard to the...

Traffic issues and an inefficient public transport could be the Labour government’s downfall, Salvu Mallia argues in his vlog today. Pointing fingers at Transport Minister Joe Mizzi, Mallia...