Please, enough is enough. Your blasphemous correspondent with his restless soul, John Guillaumier, has been far too regularly offending the Maltese people by cruelly attacking the beliefs of their...

How ridiculous we are as a nation! The NGOs and ordinary people have to defend our natural, cultural and archaeological heritage from the Planning Authority. This should be its role but the saga of...

In my opinion, that of a nonentity and an armchair critic, the consequences of the PN’s humiliating defeat in the June election have their roots and birth pangs much prior to the 2013 election....

All civilised human beings have always sought to distinguish different types of species by allocating a unique name to each. There are 60 species of oak wood, and over 300 other names to distinguish...

On 29 June, the Church celebrated the feast of Saints Peter and Paul. The lives of these two saintly celebrities have a lot to say to us who live in...

Fr Geoffrey G Attard   Having been born in Malta at the end of the seventies in a traditionally Catholic family in a relatively traditional environment makes it difficult for me to...

Yesterday, the Roman Martyrology commemorated the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Pope Saint Pius X had assigned this date for the celebration of this great feast. This...

In his autobiography, author Anthony Burgess wrote that, after he delivered a lecture on pornography and censorship at the University of Malta in 1970, "a fat Franciscan made a throat-cutting...

This is a tale of the unethical behaviour of an estate agent in the north of the island, and the rather ‘irregular’ practice of a notary chosen by the buyer. For obvious reasons those...

In other European countries the private oil companies make a profit on the sale of petrol, while the governments concerned collect duties and taxes on such sales. Here in Malta, the government...