One of the most notable features of our culture is to complain, criticize and find faults ad nauseum. Some complaints are justified and are a means of feeling the pulse of the people and address...

The newspaper Il-Furjana has done it again.  I would like to congratulate the board of the newspaper il-Furjana for the initiative taken on Sunday, 22 April last year by reuniting the Floriana...

The Leader of the Opposition seems to believe that the only way he can save his political skin is by imitating Dr Eddie Fenech Adami’s tactics of the 1980s. Back then, the slogan was...

The populist French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is closer to gaining power in France after last week's polls showed that she is very likely to reach at least a second round of voting this spring in...

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity then embrace.   This...

On Saturday 28 January, the Church celebrated the feast of the Doctor Communis, namely Saint Thomas Aquinas. Given that in the Catechism Aquinas is cited 61...

The Floriana parish church spent €45,000 on two crystal chandeliers to decorate its interior. I'm sure that Jesus would be horrified with such extravagant trumpery in a Christian church. The...

I am not easily confused, but over the last two weeks, I have come to think something is not quite right. I am referring to the farcical ‘Maltese Cheesecakes’ matter. Can anybody...

We are living in a world full of anxiety. For instance, psychology has it that we are living in a climate of social anxiety. As psychologist Dr Thomas A. Richards defined it, “social...

I would like to thank The Malta Independent for publishing my article / study entitled “St Paul's Shipwreck on the island of Malta” on 9 February. I understand that because of space...