With two other couples, last Sunday, I tried my best to make my friends enjoy the views of our magnificent harbour while walking lazily on our way for lunch to...

        As a child, I was fascinated by aquariums. I could stand for hours, observing the activities of different fish, with their exotic colours changing...

Last Sunday, Simon Busuttil tweeted: “”Isn’t it time for Sunday sermons by party leaders to stop?”   Welcome though his announcement may have been to many, it was, I...

So the big news yesterday (the big match doesn’t qualify because it started at midnight) was that the human rights organisation, aditus, wrote to the Prime Minister, copied to the civil rights...

Last week, as I was waiting (not so patiently) in my car, I noticed a man with spiky hair, a tattoo on his forearm and a nose piercing. He was walking slowly in the village square with a toddler in...

It is not often that a book dealing with economic and financial matters creates vibrant discussion in the wider society, as has been the case with Thomas Pikkety’s Capitalism in the 21st...

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is marked annually on 15 June around the world to promote a better understanding of abuse and neglect of older people by raising awareness of the cultural, social,...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives’ expressed hope of finally having Parliamentary sittings televised is not only welcome but, the way things are going, a must. Only thus can people...

Sometimes, you just cannot keep looking the other way. This is what happened to telecoms operator Vodafone, which last week revealed the extent to which it is subject to government’s requests...

It is said that the Opposition never wins an election: it is the government that loses it. Keeping this in mind, I would not worry too much that the results obtained by the Opposition showed...