“However referrals have to be judged on the merit of health and social gains, and not merely on how much the disease has progressed”...

Understanding our past includes also appreciating the ideas with which life was worked out. My most recent scientific research, 20th Century Philosophy in Malta, published by Agius & Agius Books, provides the tools for doing precisely this...

“Civil society will be represented better in the core aspects of decision making, having a representative from civil society or NGO and a cultural expert appointed to the board of Mepa”...

“One of the many aspects of the global debate about climate change in which the US is involved concerns many emerging or developing countries”...

An old Maltese saying says l-irhis gholi, which basically means that what you get on the cheap is probably of poor quality and will not turn out to be a sound ...

It is to be expected that the representatives of the Catholic Church should speak out against having divorce legislation in this country. After all, Malta is supposed to be predominantly Catholic and the people who ...

We have now heard, and read, all reactions: from the institutional to the knee-jerk types, from fawning in favour (few) to the damning and suspicious (many). That, in itself, is a sign of the times: anything the ...

Mediterranean stock I often worry that I will someday lose my mediterranean toughness – that capability to withstand extreme heat conditions with relaxed nonchalance, as well as the thick-skinned resistance to high levels of UV...

It’s not every day that one is given the opportunity to interview a living legend. So even as I sat there next to Sophia Loren, the whole thing was so surreal that in my head all I could think of was, “wow, I’m sitting next to Sophia Loren”....

Puerile. Barbaric. Pompous. Ridiculous. Blinkered. Patronising. Snide. Superficial. Arrogant. Bully. NGO-hater. Aggressive. Troglodyte....