In 1981 a handful of academics with the support of trade union officials endeavoured in an ambitious project set to launch the tuition of industrial democracy at university level. It was eventually achieved by the Foundation of the Workers’ Participation ...

We don’t need to win beauty pageants like Miss World or Miss Universe, (well we don’t anyway because we never send our best looking girls!) or the Miss Italia nel Mondo to know that Maltese women are very good looking, with every generation improving on ...

I am still trying to come to terms with the expected passing away last Sunday of my father George. There have been so many complex emotions burning inside me that I have honestly started to believe that there is indeed a double-headed monster in all of us...

Both the reds and the blues need to get together and tackle one issue with one voice, that is if they both are at all interested in first, preserving a welfare safety net ...

There is bound to be a time, and that may be sooner rather than later, when both sides of our parliamentary divide will, willy-nilly, find themselves face to face with tough, long-term problems that will demand concentration....

My fellow columnist I. M. Beck was taken aback by the inconsistency of a person who wanted to have the film The Da Vinci Code banned because it is insulting to “the Church”, but who then goes to Norman Lowell’s meetings and supports him. Inconsistency? ...

Like other people, no doubt, the Maltese have their faults – but they also have redeeming qualities....

The debate on the euro has increased in its importance over the past weeks as Malta prepares to change over from the lira to the euro. ...

…eating it, is what best typifies the attitude of critics to the quarter point increase in interest rates announced by the Central Bank while at the same time singing glory to the project for accession into the euro-zone at the earliest possible date....

An old school-friend emailed me a hilarious article published in The Times of London a few days ago, called “Have Prejudice, Won’t Travel”. ...