Journeying by train recently, I was again impressed by the number of energy windmills spread across the European countryside. You see them grouped in sixes or more, like watchers over the fields and...

The quashed coup in Turkey yesterday is being put across in the media as a bad thing that would have posed a major threat to democracy. In reality, it is the opposite of that. The Turkish Constitution...

We have had a surfeit of international scare stories this week, each with its internal dynamics. While being very serious threats, they must not distract us from focusing on what is really happening...

US Investment Bank Goldman Sachs announced last week that it had “hired” former EU Commission Chairman Josè Manuel Barroso as an adviser and non-executive chairman of the Goldman...

At every period of distraction, whether it is the Christmas holiday, the feast of Santa Marija or  the hot Summer, a creepy law passes through Parliament, a scandal is tucked away and some loyal...

Air Malta continues to be in the news. The first piece of news was the strange decision of Air Malta’s management to ask the police to investigate Capt. Dominic Azzopardi’s accusations of...

The recent tragic story of Eleanor Mangion Walker is a chilling reminder that there is an underlying sinister reality in our society. A reality which unfortunately is widely spread all over the globe....

The executive chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology continued to batter the reputation of the august institution he represents, yesterday, by presenting a formal petition in the...

You get to listen to discussions against precarious employment all over the place. The question remains: in reality, what serious measures are being implemented against the practice of employing...

I’ve been to quite a number of graduations these last years.  I love to share this special moment with my students who would have worked their guts out to achieve the ultimate price,...