We often under-estimate the impact of our thoughts and actions on how we feel mentally and physically, and on how we affect the people around us. Our tendency to be positive or negative is influenced...

Despite self-isolation, (it's been almost two months now that Russians have been "advised" not to go out, but in fact, if you decide to ignore the "advice" given by the authorities, you will be...

As we totter towards the presumed end of lockdown my thoughts turn towards what happens when, if this sorry state of affairs ever comes to an end, will life return to what it was before universal...

Michael Bugeja and myself have been exchanging emails intermittingly for many years. I was so busy then on a full-time editorial post. There wasn't time for long exchanges. But Michael had told me...

The National Book Council (NBC) is proud to announce the dates of the Malta Book Festival, which is going to be held between Wednesday, 11 and Sunday, 15 November at the Mediterranean Conference...

A local children's book that explains the COVID-19 global pandemic has been chosen by the International School Psychology Association (ISPA) to join a list of resources used by professional...

Since the formation of No. 267 (Seaplane) Squadron at RAF (Royal Air Force) Kalafrana in 1918 up to the last operational RAF squadron (No.13, P.R) that left Malta in September 1978, this 60-year...

In these weeks of lockdown, during which parents and teachers have had to organise themselves differently to provide resources in Maltese to students, Merlin Publishers have been doing their utmost to...

Today's diary comes from South Africa where I have been several times, sometimes on my way to a conference or seminar in Botwana, staying on the way with the parents of a dear friend of mine who was...

A hundred or so people huddled together in the Phoenicia ballroom. An actual, not virtual or distant, symposium celebrating a man born a century before to the day. Science fiction? Today, a few weeks...