Recently there have been a number of letters published on your newspaper calling upon the government to offer a tax concession also to parents who send their children to Church schools, in the same way as parents who send children to private schools....

I followed with interest the BondiPlus programme on hunting, during which Birdlife (Malta) president Joseph Mangion starting off by claiming that three million migrating birds are caught (shot or captured with nets) over the Maltese islands each year. ...

In a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, one of the greatest wounds that Pakistan faces is the poverty of education...

Your leader entitled Parting shot (TMID, 9 November), says, in reference to the tourism sector, that “we are reacting to a situation that has seemingly caught us unawares when the signs were there for all to see”....

In your editorial The golden rule (TMID, 11 November), you bring out the importance of discipline....

The way we speak is not the way we write, and good writers often find themselves in difficulty when they are asked to deliver an impromptu speech....

Your leader, Language, please (TMID, 7 November) hit the nail on the head....

Let me agree with Ms Valerie Borg (TMID, 9 November) that Dom Mintoff did eliminate beggars from the street – it became illegal to beg! Did that reduce poverty?...

I would like to thank the Mission Fund and their benefactors for the generous donation they have kindly sent us...

I could not agree more with Daphne Caruana Galizia’s piece Where birds come to die (TMID, 9 November)...