As you will have heard, this week Speaker Anglu Farrugia ruled that Parliament cannot probe former PM Muscat because he is no longer an MP. Seriously? This from the Government who made so much fanfare...

The following is not such a happy point to make but the truth is that as an argument, it does hold water! This country and its government have for some time now been at the receiving end –...

I have always felt intrigued by the sheer connection between books/plays that people write in a miscellanea of languages across the world and socio-political realities. When the Nazi Party in Germany...

The events on Capitol Hill in Washington last Wednesday clearly show the fragility of democracy. We should never take it for granted. The storming of Capitol Hill by Trump’s mob has damaged...

Two images come to my mind with regards to Wednesday’s attack on the US capital, one foreign and one local. The first is Chilean president Salvador Allende, helmeted and grasping a rifle,...

Where do we begin to make sense of the force for mis-management, for deliberate mis-appropriation of power and leadership that is wrecking so much harm and mis-trust amongst the people from both sides...

It might have been written back in 2016, but Professor Klaus Schwab's article: The fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means, how to respond is still relevant and enlightening as ever. Schwab,...

In our democracy and in others that it resembles, how easy is it to take hard decisions when the time to take them arrives? In terms of partisan common sense, if one side is trying to implement...

Various situations, from the global to the national and from the social to the personal, point towards the intersection of various factors in the challenges we face.  Covid-19 and the state of...

I’m up to my nose with charity campaigns, especially telethons.  Can’t we see that this model is belittling the ‘cause’ rather than empowering people.  Let me...