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?...

Damn. I must say, I enjoyed my early retirement while it lasted. For you see, not unlike a certain Romwald Lungaro Mifsud, I thought my mission was accomplished. I thought that, with Malta now safely anchored in the EU...

How time flies and memories fade, or should I say evaporate. George, our environment minister, did not take lightly to that piece of cardboard Dr Claire Bonello carried in the environment rally. ...

It has been rather disappointing, and in a number of instances petty, that the national debate on the introduction of the euro has to date focused almost exclusively on what the currency will look like and how its name should be spelt. ...

Is it any wonder that there has been no public outcry following the publication, the other day, of a damning report by the Auditor General on (a) the gross maladministration at the Voice of the Mediterranean radio ...

I am sure many readers have gone through the same experience. Wherever one goes in the world, it seems, there is no escaping a touch of Malta and the Maltese, however small a nation we have been and always will be. ...