It’s still a quarter to six and it’s still dark. But at the airport four planes are getting ready to take off to various destinations. And all these planes are Ryanair. This is a...

This week, together with my friend the Parliamentary Secretary Chris Bonnet, we visited the ongoing works at Malta International Contemporary Arts Space (MICAS) in Floriana.  This...

In theory, we all are in favour of reforms that seek to protect the environment. Which is as it should be. When it comes to the nuts and bolts of laws and regulations that should be in place to...

    Ladies and gentlemen, we're experiencing some turbulence. Please return to your seats and fasten your seat belts". As passengers on a plane that is shaking we are ready to...

An enormous majority in the country, so opinion polls tell us, now consider that Malta’s joining the EU was of great benefit to the island. Naturally the majority of those who replied to the...

The inhumane and monstrous abortion law, currently pending at Committee stage in the House of Representatives, encapsulates the government’s newly proposed philosophy of nihilism, a view that...

We are shaped by our surroundings. Us as individuals, our communities, our nation: we are very much the product of the geographical and environmental landscape that can be found around us. The...

We live in an eco-system which is being slowly destroyed. This is recognised by one and all. Consider, for example the introductory sentences in the White Paper entitled Acquisition and...

Almost €1 million was paid in allowances to staff at a single division of Minister Clint Camilleri’s ministry in a single year. Staff at the Strategy and Support Divison of the Gozo...

The Yuletide spirit did not take much to be dissipated this time.  In swift succession we have lost people we have loved and honoured – Sinisa Mihajlovic, Pele, Pope emeritus Benedict,...