On 9th June 2018, Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to issue the decree approving a miracle attributed to the intercession of (1916-1975), a member of Opus Dei. The...

It has been barely a month since I addressed Labour’s event as the party marked Joseph Muscat’s decade at its helm. The response from members of the public, colleagues at university and...

I am not sure if anyone is allowed to coin new words in the lexicon but I will use a writer’s licence to do so. We often boast about Malta being a democracy. I have often thought about this and...

The answers given by many Eurosceptics to the challenges we face, including migration, is that we must seek our national self-interest and give up on cooperation. Eurosceptics believe that the...

“Working for a cause is no guarantee for applause” may be a variation on the known saying, but could very well describe the reality for many of us engaged in public life. There are...

“There is no immigrant crisis,” said philosopher Slavoj ?i?ek to the journalist during an interview on UK’s Channel 4 a couple of years ago. His point was that, beyond the...

On 26 June, Malta's Parliament voted unanimously in favour of the three Bills that were piloted by parliamentary secretary Silvio Schembri and his team. After months of consultation and tweaking, the...

There is never a dull moment for a government that is fully aware of its responsibilities. While the country enjoys the holiday season, the administration takes no pause. Decisions need to be timely...

In his book on France in the Maltese collective memory, Charles Xuereb makes an interesting observation: with Dom Mintoff’s death, Malta’s quest for identity, which had preoccupied at...

I was in the European Parliament in Brussels this week and, to my amusement, found that many professed to believe that the ‘Maltese PM’ is now denoted as the ‘Maltese Pirate...