The politics of retribution has been around for quite some time. It is what comes to mind when watching or reading the news from the Middle East over the past days. Retribution, or revenge, is a...

Mental health and financial capability are intricately intertwined, each affecting the other in a complex relationship. While financial difficulties can be a source of stress and anxiety, poor mental...

At the election held last Sunday in Poland the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) lost to Opposition leader Donald Tusk and his Civic Platform party alongside two smaller partners who won a combined 248...

The carnage that is going on in the Middle East is a tragedy of mammoth proportions. For the past long and desolate 75 years, a land no bigger than 30,000 km2, has witnessed endless cycles of...

What a pity it is that the referendum in Australia about aboriginal rights has given a negative result. It should have signalled that Australia had at last come to grips with the huge injustices...

Will it be built or not? The latest authoritative statement about the Gozo tunnel (in the document on a regional strategy for Gozo) stated that the project is being reconsidered. All understood...

Magisterial inquiries are by their nature inquisitorial. In this respect Malta follows continental European Law, mainly French and Italian Law. After all, the source of the Criminal Code is the...

It’s been six years since Daphne Caruana Galizia’s brutal assassination.  And nothing’s changed. Everything the public inquiry identified as a contributing cause of that...

Everything is connected. The health of the planet is also reflected in our health. Pope Francis, in his Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum, published last week, joined environmental...

It’s 9/11 again and worse. Pearl Harbour and worse. For in neither of these two catastrophes was there this direct savagery. It was nothing else than a pogrom, such as had been the fate of...