At the COP29 Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, last week, I stated that climate emergency is one of the most pressing crises the world faces. The devastating floods that killed 200 people in Spain last...

We do well when we refuse to accept with eyes tight shut all that we hear about what is going on in the nation's economic and political life. The perspectives given in all the news that gets to us are...

Solar access should be a right. The government must seriously consider enacting solar rights legislation. There is an urgent need to introduce a law guaranteeing the right to light. Not only did...

Economic and social planning as it used to be done years ago is no longer practised. In a market economy, we keep being told, it is not possible to really plan. But whoever is managing a political...

"This is no pardon," an angry magistrate exclaimed in court, brandishing a letter sent by the Office of the President to one of hundreds of beneficiaries of allegedly fraudulent disability...

The report from the Commissioner of Standards in Public Life on Clayton Bartolo's then girlfriend, Amanda Muscat, and the report of the Auditor General on the Film Commission were published in the...

It is said that when Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he replied, "then what are we fighting for?" Sadly, we're not sure if the British Prime Minister has...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech's recent response to the budget was an ambitious attempt to position himself as a credible alternative to Prime Minister Robert Abela. While Grech's critique of the...

Or copycat. On Sunday Robert Abela had a brainwave. Speaking at a party activity at Zebbug, he announced that later this week Cabinet will discuss a new initiative that will only allow people to...

Communication is a key element in today's society. Words, the main means used in communicating, represent a magical power that only mankind possesses. In times gone by, it used to be said that the pen...