Malta is approaching a critical tipping point - a juncture at which our environment, society, politics all change irreversibly. We face the unprecedented responsibility of sticking our necks out to...

Our vote is much more powerful than we can ever imagine. Our electoral system provides for a transferability of the votes cast through a system of preferences. Our electoral system is in fact known as...

It is no secret that small-scale fishing plays an important role, both in our country’s historical and cultural fabric, as well as our socio-economic status in the present day. Additionally, our...

“Imma Padre (I was still a priest then) ma tarax li l-Ewropa hi immorali?” (But Padre don’t you see that Europe is immoral?). That, in just one sentence encapsulates Karmenu...

One can only agree immediately with all that is said in support of multiculturalism and the need to proscribe totally all speech and action that stimulate antipathy (to put it mildly) between...

The temptation does arise to consider that the attitude being adopted regarding the island’s actual economic situation against the background of the growing uncertaitnties that surround us,...

“Can you remind people exactly how many big significant interviews Liz Truss has done?”, Andrew Marr asked Andrew Neill. “I think that would be zero”, Neill curtly...

Around twenty years ago, the authority responsible for land use planning, then named MEPA, had published a Minerals Subject Plan for the Maltese Islands. The plan is dated May 2003. The...

It all boils down to impartiality. And why an examination of Magistrate Lia’s conduct is important to each and every one of us. A couple of weeks ago, this newspaper’s weekly sister...

So after 20 years the Hondoq ir-Rummien chapter is closed and all breathed a sigh of relief. I have been following and reporting on this saga right from the very beginning when we media were...