Realities around us can and do change and most of the time, we cannot alter the path of the changes taking place. We ourselves are also subject to the effects of change. We can be healthy...

It is useless asking why we all seem focused on our small world to the exclusion of anything happening beyond our shores. That is our insularity coming to the fore, again and again. Twenty-five years...

The news that the government intends to give great swathes of public land on the southern coast, to speculators for the building of three hotels (one of them in a historic fort), a coastal promenade,...

Last Monday I met an Eritrean mother of three who, despite living in appalling conditions, is eternally grateful to Malta for giving her children the chance to grow up safely. A couple of years ago,...

I was one of those cynics who had reservations when the Malta Press Club was set up 25 years ago. I had publicly expressed my doubts whether the venture could succeed, given the erratic behaviour of...

Let's settle this score once and for all I say.  Give us back our property and our rights as landowners and stop this gross injustice now.  It is like there are two or three Maltas. One...

By the expression putting the cart before the horse, I am not referring to the three-legged horse that was placed at the entrance of our capital city, and which has since been removed. This bronze...

The Minister of Transport, Joe Mizzi, is one of those men of slight build who are a giant of comedy in their own mind. In Parliament, the other day, he decided to go one better than his colleagues in...

When Brittany Maynard announced last month that she had picked 1 November as the day she would die, there were many who did not believe she would have the courage to do it. Others prayed that she...

One day I will understand, perhaps, the Labour Party's version of liberal progress, or progressive liberalism. It seems to involve over-egging the pudding where gay people are concerned, especially if...