The year was 1968. American biologist John Calhoun (1917–1995) started his 25th take on an experiment – at the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland – that consisted of a...

Karl Lauterbach, the German Health Minister, in the past days chose to spend his summer holidays in Italy. Like all of us, he had to deal with the extraordinary temperatures of the past days. On the...

There’s a post on TikTok that compares what people are saying now and what they said in other times. This particular one quotes One News and what it had to say in recent weeks when cables...

I had the privilege of visiting the gardens of Villa Frere to witness first hand the impressive works that are rejuvenating this historical treasure. Accompanied by the top management of Heritage...

There can be no doubt: world wide, the US is one of the most beautiful and interesting countries and this in many of the meanings by which such qualities can be considered and appreciated. I always...

A discussion about the Maltese identity is not meanginless, as some would like to pretend. It highlights how we should consider ourselves as a community, and what makes us similar to or different from...

Professor Arnold Cassola is a regular complainant to the Office of the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life. Through these public-spirited complaints, the Commissioner is requested to investigate...

The MATSEC results have just been published. And it’s a disaster. One in every four students who sat for Maths or Maltese failed. Almost one in every three either failed or didn’t...

At the time of writing multiple localities are trying to cope with night-long power cuts. In some cases, Enemalta Corporation maintenance personnel have been successful in carrying out repairs...

We began this week with two massive crowd assemblies. First on Monday the protest against Jean Paul Sofia’s death and in support of the battle admirably waged by his mother for a public inquiry...