Climate change is nature’s reaction to the cumulative impacts it has sustained as a result of human behaviour over the years. Long periods of drought or intensive rainfall leading to flooding,...

In the 1970s, when Dom Mintoff was setting up Air Malta, some Nationalists came up with a doggerell children used to sing “Ghasfur tac-comb itir” This caused, as I remember, a huge...

Statistics are not really going to accurately describe the reality of the cost of living in Malta. For a more realistic picture we need to trust our senses and our instincts.  They tell us...

One of the things that stands out immediately in any encounter I have with families and people at large is the wide realisation that Robert Abela has proven to be, time and time again, a safe pair of...

I used to believe that a most useful condition that could be placed on a construction project (big or small, public or private) when the necessary permits are being issued would be that the project is...

Roberta Metsola's impressive election to the post of President of the European Parliament was no surprise to those who know how effective she is in her political career. Both as a colleague and...

890 families are still coming to terms with Minister Clyde Caruana’s announcement last week that Air Malta would lay off 420 of their own working there. They still cannot understand how they are...

Personally I doubt whether the freedom of the press has deteriorated so much in recent years, compared to what it was, let’s say, twenty five or forty years ago. Journalism in Malta always...

“This is another success story,” Konrad Mizzi boasted on 23 March 2019. Air Malta, he bragged, returned to profitability after two decades. Mizzi falsely claimed the company registered...

Is democracy inherently chaotic? Or is it just the pandemic? Let’s try to answer by analysing a pressing problem: climate change. A year ago almost to the day – on January 19,...