It was one of those school activities I hate attending, but feel duty-bound to go to. I was about to doze off but I perked up when I heard the priest delivering the talk mention the media. What others think about ...

This is a sad and, at the same time, a beautiful story. It concerns a child struggling for life, medical decisions that seemed to look at life in rather a cold unemotional manner, and ...

Fifty years ago, in 1961, the second Sunday in May fell on the 14th of the month. Four days earlier I had mentioned, for the first time in Malta...

Joseph Muscat certainly has the courage of his convictions when it comes to the divorce issue. Even before taking over his party’s leadership he had already declared his intention...

“The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth” – Jean de La Bruyere...

No, it was not a self-confessed pragmatist who coined this phrase, it came as an idea from the European Commission in an altruistic bout of zeal to reduce administrative burdens...

Who knew you could go away for three weeks and, on your return, find yourself in some kind of time warp? ...

Just back from a week in London (no, I was not invited to the wedding), I was scrounging around for a topic to get my teeth into. A big city is always exciting and it takes a while to get back into a parochial frame of mind. ...

I have personally witnessed and been involved in two referendum campaigns: the 2003 referendum on Malta’s accession to the European Union and the campaign ...

On 25 April 1915, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) started their nine-month campaign to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula. This campaign is often considered...