“Without a fundamental commitment to the truth – especially in our public institutions and those who lead them – we are lost. As a legal principle, if people don’t tell the...

What’s wrong with us? What holds us back? Why are we so scared of facing truths, challenging lies and confronting institutions? What is scarier is not that we are so quiet, so acquiescent,...

As I get down to write, at noon on Friday, the counting of votes in the American presidential election is not over yet. So all that has happened between now and the time on Sunday when you get to read...

In the absence of some real life art and entertainment in our theatres and a scant of free and professional critique and analyses of truth and facts as they stand for public consumption, we are left...

In Parliament on Wednesday, I highlighted the budget measures for Education and Employment presented last month with the theme ‘Maltin b’Saħħitna ‘l...

I remain extremely sceptical (it’s not the first time I’m writing this) about the forecasts being made for the economic scenario of the next two years or so. This applies both for when...

We are all proud of our roots. When we travel to other countries, we boast of where we come from. Many times we do so with nostalgia. Those of us who had the privilege of being brought up in a rural...

There is something called 'ethics' which has become as rare as rocking horse crap. It seems that we keep hearing of one alleged case after another of people mixing their professional, political,...

The financial services industry is possibly the golden goose of the Maltese economy, pumping up to €1.7 billion to our Gross Domestic Product per year and providing for over 12,000 families with...

The month of November brings with it the commemoration of the twentieth century’s two World Wars. In their large majority, the people who commemorate the destruction, the deaths and the...