I am sure it happens to most bookworms around the world. My moment in time this last week was the discovery, on my sagging shelves at home, of a book by one of the most exciting poets of the Liverpool...

If we take time to watch from an objective distance, the main event of the past week was the fall of Kabul, the repeated fall of the city and of the country. The free world had another 9/11...

Events in Afghanistan in this past week have revealed a shift in global organization and thinking.  Mostly there was a sense of shock at the way the Taliban had swept into Kabul in such a short...

The research project which saw a space balloon successfully being launched from Bighi all the way up to the stratosphere carrying cameras and other technological tools with the aim of recording new...

In a recent interview in The Malta Independent on Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne said that “Herd immunity is a mathematical formula. It’s not a magical...

For a number of reasons, I totally disagree with the idea that a proposal to develop a yacht marina at Marsascala should be dismissed out of hand. It has long been declared that investments which...

Inequalities in Europe frequently get referenced, not without reason. In a continent endowed with democratic government which has over long years now, maintained respectable rates of economic growth,...

This newspaper published a pertinent interview a few days ago that tackled, among other things, the State. Its pertinence lay not in the interviewee’s answers – they were evasive at best...

Malta is one of many climate-vulnerable islands.  Malta is not as vulnerable as the Maldives, which has an average altitude of 150 centimetres above sea-level and a highest natural point of 5.10...

It is amazing to see and appreciate the ingenuity of people even and especially in this Covid emergency. And also in this never-ending heat wave. Looking back, we can remember the many alarms we...