A disturbing feature in the last round of local council elections was the unexpected low turn out of the electorate – a sharp drop from 88 per cent of votes cast in 2003 to 66 per cent this year. ...

The Curia has bossed church-run schools into not distributing to pupils a World Health Organisation questionnaire on health behaviour. It includes four questions on sexual behaviour, and the Curia apparently believes these questions to be unacceptable. ...

Is Malta ready for a government of national unity? A government where the ministries are shared roughly between the two political parties based on talent and aptitude, rather than number of votes and historic connections?...

This was an odd title for Minister Austin Gatt to choose for his article published this week. The title is more suitable for an Alfred Sant contribution if only it could be fitted with his branded PRefix. ...

This government’s economic philosophy is that the state should intervene as little as possible in the dynamics of the market. We intervene as far as our social and environmental obligations make us, ...

All good democrats the world over believe that “democracy” is a system of government of the people, by the people, for the people. The system ensures that electors decide, by means of a free and unfettered vote,...

Mdina, the Silent City, has gone through an upgrading exercise during the past few years. ...

The legislature is about to slip by its third anniversary and with two years to go, the next election is on the horizon of any decision being made by our political formations....

Or should that be Italy’s man in Malta? Arnold Cassola appears to want it both ways....

I recently had the opportunity of attending an excellent seminar, the high point of which was a speech by the eminent anthropologist Jeremy Boissevain....