For politicians as well as the media, it is standard operating procedure at year’s end and in the first weeks of a new year to survey the past and to take measure of the future....

There was more than meets the eye in the “warm welcome” extended to MLP Leader Alfred Sant, and his entourage, at the Nationalist Party headquarters in the first week of the New Year....

As an ordinary member of society I admit my share of its collective guilt that it is producing adolescents who need to celebrate the ushering in of the New Year through open bar parties....

I once told a surgeon that all four of my grandparents ate what they liked, when they liked, and never knowingly took any form of exercise, yet all lived to a very ripe old age indeed. ...

Some time before the Christmas break, Professor E. Mallia harshly criticised speculation that a 25 per cent reduction of Malta’s fossil fuel consumption for the generation of electricity could possibly be achieved with land-based wind turbines....

I am writing this article when all indications seemed to suggest that Ariel Sharon’s political career seems to be over....

Are our youngsters so bored, so turned off an education system that is failing too many, that Paceville-crawling from the age of 12, 13 or 14 is the only answer?...

As Malta tiptoes into the year 2006, the Gonzi administration takes stock of its strengths and weaknesses, before it takes its bearings....

Should government ministers perhaps be more cautious when they use majorities to justify a policy?...

It is really not that surprising that nothing in Malta (not even the Leader of the Opposition) has been nominated in the current attempt to identify the Seven Wonders of today’s world. ...