There is not much to celebrate in Europe at the moment. Europe is sinking fast. As often happens in Malta, the media only reports those aspects of news that politicians want to hear while ignoring the...

The music was great. The singers were brilliant. The songs were varied and aimed for different tastes. But it was an emotionless crowd that attended the Joseph Calleja concert on...

This week, the proverbial glass ceiling has been cracked thanks to the historical nomination, by the Democratic Party, of Hillary Clinton as the first woman candidate in the Presidential race to the...

Two 17-year-old boys, one Hungarian and the other German, have died in accidents while on holiday in Malta and the internet is full of wise owls and know-it-alls saying that ‘something must be...

As usual I find “dogmatic” arguments, this time regarding euthanasia, less than convincing. The way they are being hitched to the claim that life must be considered as totally sacred is...

I like many others have read with interest the vision of the recently installed Rector Professor Alfred Vella, Forging Ahead Beyond 2016: The Plan for the University of Malta.   What did...

The current industrial dispute between the management of the national carrier Air Malta and the Airline Pilots Association, ALPA, is not a storm in a teacup.  Air Malta filed an injunction...

No satisfactory reply has been given regarding whether the leading banks are taking advantage of the prevailing financial situation when greatly pulling down the interest they pay on funds lent to...

The situation in Turkey is now far worse than anybody could have foreseen, and this just a week after the failed coup d’état. Though I do not concur with the widely touted notion that...

Friday’s rampage and massacre outside the Munich shopping centre reminded us all of the dangerous times we are living in. That area in Munich is very near to the Olympic village where...