If there is one subject I have always regretted not having studied, despite digesting plenty of books about it, is linguistics. It is such a fascinating discipline, especially to us Maltese boasting...

Politicians should keep a social distance from big business, always, not only during a pandemic. This was reportedly stated by George Hyzler, the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life earlier this...

I’ve repeated this often enough. If it isn’t music to your ears, just flip over or don’t click on this article. It’s all Daphne Caruana Galizia’s doing.  When she...

Trying to make head and tails of what happened at the latest hard-fought, six-hour, diatribe-filled executive council meeting of the Nationalist Party is like treading through treacle. Time and...

Throughout Europe, Ministries of Education rapidly put in place measures linked to the closure of schools and launched remote teaching initiatives to support school leaders, teachers, parents, and of...

A friend showed me a list of wellknown cases that had reached the courts and stalled there. It’s quite a long one. It covered cases flagged by scandal about corruption, abuse of power, fraud or...

Can we say that people in Malta are reconciling work with family life? A recent publication by the National Statistics Office (NSO) provides important data on the matter, using 2018 as the year under...

Last February the Planning Authority [PA] scheduled the late 19th century townhouse on Triq il-Karmnu in St Julian’s (that for many years also served as the residence of Malta’s former...

The tax on financial services, labelled the financial transactions tax (FTT), has been back in the news as a tax the EU could charge in order to secure a new source of revenues. These it needs to...

Living on a small island probably causes genetic loss. Particularly in the eyesight. Some people stop seeing things rationally, and get engulfed in an emotional vision of the world. There are many...