One of the media stories that perturbed me of late was the one about certain examiners colluding and taking payments to ensure people passed their driving tests. ...

The survey, which reached the apparently spurious conclusion that the Maltese are the happiest people on earth, was bound to be proved wrong at some point. Anyone who lives ...

Strange how people can be so unwittingly honest at the unlikeliest of moments. ...

Absolute power mocks at democracy. Without constitutional and parliamentary checks, power can run riot....

This week there was a debate on the pensions reform that Malta needs to undertake. I would not have used the word “reform” as this would mean “changing. ” I would use the word update and adapt. ...

Throughout the 1980s the main economic problem was one of obstinately high inflation caused by the two oil price shocks firstly in 1973/74 and then again following the Iranian revolution in 1979. ...

British researchers have found that the tactics of girl bullies are different to those of boy bullies. ...

The Lebanon I left some five weeks ago was a country gearing itself up to ride on the crest of a building boom and a revived tourism sector that was drawing to its fold tourists of various nationalities....

A couple of weeks ago, parliament was debating a rather controversial bill amending various laws in the plenary session. ...

Is pladding (platonic lunching and dining) merely a sign of the times, the thing of the future, a pursuit of the ageing, or just a necessarily reduced way for the ageing to pursue happiness?...