Terror has been deployed as a tool of war since human beings realised they functioned as social animals. With every generation that has passed since that discovery, terror has been adjusted and...

The Prime Minister’s aide, Glenn Bedingfield aka Fat Gland, has chosen to mark Eastertide by launching an assault on the Archbishop. I imagine he believes this is a jolly good way of rallying...

This was no knee-jerk reaction to the arrest of the last terrorist implicated in the attack on Paris in November. The Brussels attack was minutely planned and executed. The logistics behind them...

Last October we watched the saga of Noel Sciberras in Libya, abducted by a gang in Tajoura  and held prisoner for over a month until he was freed and brought back home to Malta.  There have...

Catholic believers would not consider it a coincidence that their Bishop Emeritus went to meet the risen Lord during Holy Week. His life was an up-hill struggle. Before referring to a few unknown...

The Prime Minister declared three days of national mourning for the death of a former Archbishop of Malta, and promptly jetted off for his Easter holidays, saying that he would miss the formal funeral...

Jeremy Boissevain was the first to explain how to a substantial extent, affairs are conducted in Malta according to a friends-of-friends system, with "friends" working together to help each other...

They might not be burning down printing presses, or preventing newspapers from choosing the name they would like for their publication. But the attacks on the independent media under this government...

I believe that what we are experiencing in our political scenario at this point in time is close to unprecedented.  After the virtual walkover of the Nationalist Party in the last general...

I refer to Simon Mercieca’s opinion piece entitled Mario de Marco and Adrian Hillman which appeared in the Malta Independent’s edition of 21 March 2016. Mr Mercieca is free to comment...