Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, once said of that horrific state-sponsored genocide that, "to forget the victims means to kill them a second time." Wiesel's words...

It is only because we resolutely limit our horizons to what we can see with the naked eye that we fail to see that our small island is after all part of the bigger world. All our media limits its...

Last Saturday's Malta Eurovision Song Contest was remarkable in many ways. Congratulations to this year's winner, Aidan, who gave an excellent performance. I am sure that Aidan will do Malta proud at...

These last days, practically all the major European media focused on just one issue - how despite its economic might, Europe remains after all hugely dependent on the US. For its security, for its...

In the high-definition show business of politics, as in everything else, looks matter. These days, we are constantly checking out the person behind the platform to see how well they live up to the...

Malta's traffic problem has many causes, but confusion between causes and effects does not rank among the more forgivable ones. Yet this is precisely where Transport Malta Minister Chris Bonett has...

Tourism is the economic sector which up to now has provided, almost right through, consistently positive results. It is the one sure reason why the economy has continued to roll. The fear that was...

There is a certain symbolism in the number six for Robert Abela. It marks six years since he was entrusted with leading Malta as Prime Minister. It also reflects where his parliamentary journey began:...

In 1982 Istvan Szabo's film Mephisto won the best foreign film Oscar.  It told the story of a stage actor in 1930s Germany who achieved success, becoming head of the Berlin State Theatre, by...

The scene is a cold January morning on the way to work, driving by a bloody billboard proudly telling us to own the flow; whatever that means. Brewing a feeling of distaste and discomfort at that...