It has been seven years since the spring hunting referendum, a Green Party initiative in Malta supported by a coalition of 13 environmental and animal welfare NGOs, was lost by the smallest of...

There are incredible similarities between the end of Boris Johnson this week and that of Joseph Muscat so many months ago. Both had been the adulated leaders of their countries but in time the...

Prime Minister Robert Abela's first 100 days in office following his re-election have been marked by continuity and renewal. The first 100 days have been a good start in demonstrating this...

The decisions taken by the US Supreme Court judges in recent weeks have reversed civil rights that were long established in the country: abortion rights in first place but also others that defined how...

In the transport and infrastructure sector, Malta has an abundance of challenges, ranging from overdependence on private cars to inaccessible pavements. In turn, these have various environmental,...

Diverse ways exist by which to wage a war. The idea that miitary attacks of any kind should not be mounted with the aim of killing “ortdinary” people is quite modern. According to the...

Barristers all over England and Wales, who are members of the Criminal Bar Association, are striking because the revised legal aid fees proposed by government are still too low for the amount and the...

“Who told you he’s being investigated?”, Joseph Muscat snarled. Reuters had just revealed that 17 Black belonged to Yorgen Fenech. A magisterial inquiry was ongoing. The reporter...

The Ministry for Public Works and Planning has embarked on another public consultation on stormwater management. I have lost count as to the number of times this exercise has been carried out along...

In my last article, I wrote about Malta’s mismanagement of its Schengen border with Italy: Customs officials inspect people who cross this internal border as if it were an external border....