Robert Abela is adopting the habits of dictators. His tolerance for rampant ministerial abuse, his intolerance for journalists, his degrading treatment of irregular migrants and his determined assault...

Well, it had to happen. They’ve spoilt pretty much everywhere, so Comino had to be next in line. An application has been cooked up to build a hotel and a bungalow village on the so-far unspoilt...

Along with many others I did not feel Tuesday’s strong quake at 9.30pm (maybe because at that time I was watching an equally strong quake on a football pitch!). Or maybe because I was on...

This week hundreds of Sir Adrian Dingli's private documents, dating back to the beginning of the 19th century when Malta was just beginning to form part of the British Empire, have become part of the...

A friend made an interesting remark: Greed has penetrated too deeply into the Maltese economy. The dictionary defines greed as an “intense and selfish desire for something”: surely money...

On 10 December 2023 we will be commemorating 75 years since representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world published the draft of the Universal Declaration...

As extensive strikes spread across Europe, mostly because inflation is creating so many problems for workers and their families, one cannot but note how strikes in this country have tailed off in...

Cicero once wrote that ‘we have no other rule capable of distinguishing between a good or a bad law, than our natural conscience and reason. These, however, enable us to separate justice from...

Malta has been humiliated by the European Court of Human Rights, again, thanks to Byron Camilleri. The Court ordered Malta not to hold unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in conditions that subject...

Greek mythology conveys a multitude of lessons which we could do well to ponder on. One of them refers to gifts that mask a hidden, and generally destructive, agenda. One such lesson results from the...