Was anyone surprised, the other day, when Joseph Muscat said that Dom Mintoff should be appreciated for his objectives and not for how he went about things? That's another way of saying that the ends...

Events of the past few weeks - or should we say those of the past 20 months? - have been a salutary lesson as to why politicians and other holders of high office should stick to better and stricter...

I am lucky because I do not have to drive to go to the office. I consider this as a great advantage over my colleagues. I see them arrive at work flustered, angry and irritated after having to endure...

Surprise! Surprise! Some may find the comments of Mr Mario Cutajar, Principal Permanent Secretary, on The Malta Independent last Sunday inappropriate.   Others may think his comments were in...

The President of the Republic, Marie Louise Colerio Preca in expressing solidarity with migrants, has become a source of political controversy. Fringe elements of our two main political parties have...

Last Saturday during my programme on Radju Malta, Ghandi xi Nghid I discussed the boundless debate on the role of the media in society (http://andrewazzopardi.org/ghandi-x-nghid-radio-show/), the so...

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,...