The wanton destruction of Malta’s natural environment under Joseph Muscat’s administration has become yet another hallmark of the anything-goes, zero accountability, total impunity,...

Last week in one of my visits to Gozo, I pointed out that Malta should be making better use of the Juncker plan for strategic investment for projects such as the promised permanent link to Gozo. The...

By 2020, we expect 120 million Europeans – one fifth of Europe’s population –to have some form of disability. This brings many challenges. How do we ensure that they can enjoy their...

If there is one thing that should be clear by now is the fact that developers control this country. These past two weeks the Planning Authority has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that they...

Every week we learn more how beneficial it was that, since day one, the Labour government chose prosperity over austerity so that no one would be left behind. This has been yet another week that...

There is an important interface between Government and Society: public thinkers. We sometimes refer to them as ‘journalists’ but, in reality, the interface consists of...

I refer to the article in another local paper under the heading “Maltese teens fattest in Europe”.  In Europe, an estimated 59 per cent of adults are overweight or obese; 36.6...

It was right that the Archbishop, on Independence Day, highlighted the issue of solidarity with present and future generations in particular. It seems that in Malta, as in other places in the world,...

In one of the plotlines in the American TV series Band of Brothers, there is the conflict between Major Winters and Captain Sobel. There is one remarkable scene where the Captain walks past the Major...

Autumn has its rituals, the most prominent of which is the beginning of a new school year. Whether you’re the parent of school-age children or not you know that this is a period of the year...