Let’s start with a few confessions. It’s Covid time so confessions are easier, more plentiful and more heartfelt. Life has never felt so fragile, especially for the over 60s like me, so on...

On Good Friday a local worthy put on the Roman centurion armour he usually wears during the procession and paraded with it up and down the street in Madliena where he lives while someone in the...

Robert Abela is fast becoming Malta’s biggest moral hazard.  He is coming across as hell-bent on demoralizing the population whilst trying to reach in desperation for votes showing a deep...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore is also known for a quote, which I am sharing, “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the...

While some Covid-19 measures could be eased soon, we will not be returning to how things were in December "any time soon," Public Health Superintendent Charmaine Gauci said on this week's edition of...

A conclusion about what went on in the years since the financial crisis of the years 2008/2020 is frequently being reached: the priority was for governments to balance their books. They needed to cut...

As our jingoistic sentiments secrete from every corner of these Islands, 20 reflections come to mind; 1.       Alan Kurdi, not that I had any doubt, died for...

I’m still concerned that the estimates being advanced about the damage that the corona virus pandemic has been causing are low. Not just for Malta, but across the board. I understand the...

What if there is only one ventilator available and you have to choose between a 21-year-old African immigrant and an elderly member of a Maltese family? This was the question raised by somebody a few...

Earlier this week, Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo sanctimoniously declared on TV that he had discussed at length the immigration crisis in Maltese waters with the EU Commission, with the Vatican and...