I have already had the occasion to write in this newspaper on government’s proposed amendment to the Criminal Code to legalise abortion by stealth. In this piece, I examine briefly...

The social sciences call the institutional failure of supporting victim-survivors as the ‘justice gap’. It overlaps with the attrition rate, which is the number of reported cases dropped...

The amendment to the Criminal Code forming part of Bill 28 which Parliament started discussing on Monday 28 November codifies the existing practice at the state hospital. It defines the necessary...

News outlets have reported that apparently President Vella is “considering the option to resign if the amendment is approved as proposed by the government. He is mainly concerned that the change...

The first self-made Silicon Valley female billionaire has just been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Her company, Theranos, previously valued at 10 billion dollars is now worth nothing. Billions of...

In 1998, driven by desperation, I wrote a letter to myself, a letter to the editor. My mother had been taken to St Luke’s Hospital and there was another patient near her who did not let...

This week  I attended, along with my colleagues in the EU family, a formal Culture Council in Brussels. This Council meeting was one with a difference, as we were joined by the Ukrainian...

Human rights, including the right to own property are recognized as a fundamental basis on which modern democratic society is built. However the same rights also have, and should have, a social...

Across the Eurozone and other economic blocs around the world, it seems that inflation is here to stay for the foreseeable future. This is hardly surprising, given global crises such as those related...

By means of clause 2 of Bill No. 28 of 2022, published in The Malta Government Gazette of Monday, 21 November 2022, government is proposing to introduce abortion in Malta through the back door. It...