I like the emphasis the government is attaching to the social effects of the 2020 budget. The social strategy deployed these last years has been getting useful results. Perhaps they’re not...

The rustling of newspapers is comforting a sound.  The news you read in them not that much, and by the time you finish reading this article, your phone would have beeped with another...

The recent budgetary measures, especially in the social sector, announced by the Government are indeed pleasing to the ear.  The leadership of Dr Michael Falzon as Minister for the Family,...

For some, refusing to take ‘no’ for an answer can be very rewarding, even if the entity telling you ‘no’ is the Planning Authority.  In 2009, the owner of a tract of land...

I took part in a seminar organized by the European Parliament about harassment at the workplace. The same Parliament had by resolution decided that all MEPs should attend the seminar to ensure they...

In international law there is a fiction: all States are equal in the international system. The reality is that it is just that: fiction. Some States are stronger, others are weaker and power is...

The environmental deficit is still rising and the long-winded Budget speech by Finance Minister Edward Scicluna last Monday did not address it.  Through the MDA, their association, property...

I was intrigued, to say the least, by a most interesting discussion during a recent edition of Television Malta’s fast emerging Insights programme about the integration of – and solidarity...

A usually forward-looking man recently said that he wishes to see the Royal Opera House rebuilt in its old style. This symbolises what I think is one of our major faults: we do not want to look ahead...

When it was announced, last week, that the Xarabank discussion would be not on Daphne Caruana Galizia – on account of the approaching of the second anniversary of her murder – but on a...