On Saturday 23 July, the notes of Carl Orff’s O Fortuna from his famous Carmina Burana brought the 2011 edition of the Malta Arts Festival to a close. A spectacular end for a Festival that was singled out by the 26 June edition of the UK Sunday Times...

Those who think foreign policy is all about values must be either detached from reality or else true romantics. Or idealists....

A recent newspaper report (The Malta Independent on Sunday) estimated that 78 per cent of Fourth and Fifth Formers attend private lessons. This figure approximates...

The riots at the Safi Detention Centre on 16th August have again shone a spotlight on the value and efficacy of Malta’s detention policy. Tear gas was used to quell the riot. ...

The Nationalist Party is trying to lay a trap for the Labour Party. But the PL has so far resisted the temptation to play along. It does not want to repeat what it did in the previous term...

The Church has apologised and is even discussing compensation with the victims’ lawyers, now that so much has been exposed on the child abuse cases, despite its attempts...

It is said that Americans have a genius for simplification. Gradually, however, the quest for it has become a global trend, one that continues to conquer new territories, just as blue jeans once did...

During the past week there was yet another meeting between the German chancellor and the French president on what to do about the eurozone’s worsening debt crisis...

According to the latest report published by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, entitled ‘Working time developments – 2010’...

Some countries have clearly run out of time and space to resolve their sovereign debt problems voluntarily...