Through this pandemic we have come to rely on numbers, the number of people who have been infected, announced every day at around 1pm. Now those numbers have become surreal with the exponential...

It’s funny how the speakers of the English Language have, at some mysterious point in history, “decided” to label the day coming straight after Christmas as Boxing day. The word...

The latest developments in the worldwide struggle against Covid-19 have given rise to concerns that go beyond the fear that we all share, of getting infected. For better or for worse, we have...

As the active cases of Covid-19 touch the 8,000 mark with another record of 1,300 cases yesterday, Malta is living through possibly the hardest patch of our battle against Covid-19. The anxiety and...

Debate over migration governance has become more polarised, harming the relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean. The northern shore shouts across the sea: discourage irregular migration....

I will remember how an Israeli journalist and novelist who came to see me while on a visit to Malta, explained that he had been pleasantly surprised by the Maltese houses which he had entered and...

The US state department “has credible information that Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi were involved in corrupt acts that included using their political influence and official power for personal...

On Friday 22nd December 1950, the Legislative Assembly, as it was then called under the 1947 Constitution, rose to lay tribute to one of the greatest heroes of our political history- former Prime...

Has the year 2021 been a “lost” year because of Covid? And similarly 2020? Certainly the rate of economic growth faltered. Yet, purely from this perspective, this was perhaps not such...

In a contemporary classic textbook published twenty years ago, Canadian Sociologist David J. Cheal writes about the sociology of family life, impressively combining theoretical concepts and empirical...