Half of the Maltese population favours voluntary euthanasia for terminally ill patients, while 21.5% remain undecided and 29% are against it. Notably, an intriguing and surprising figure is that 40%...

Malta's latest PISA results should give us serious cause for reflection. In the OECD's 2025 assessment, 48% of 15-year-old students in Malta failed to reach minimum proficiency in reading, 44% in...

It's chaos in major European cities. In Milan's Piazza Duomo, the main shopping outlets are being looted, and police cars are being set on fire. In France, it's even worse. Young people are protesting...

In May, the government offered every resident aged fourteen and over a free premium chatbot. A two-hour online course unlocks a year of ChatGPT Plus or Microsoft Copilot, worth about €240....

In the day to day politicial competition that is ongoing in democracies, an essential aim is to retain some form of control over the national agenda. In this, a governing party starts with an...

Even though many fans of favourite teams that failed to qualify were saved from the inevitable heartbreak, this year's FIFA World Cup tournament nevertheless had its serious downsides. FIFA...

Lawrence Gonzi lost the 2013 election by 36,000 votes, and utility bills did much of the damage. His government raised electricity tariffs and surcharges in 2008, when oil prices soared. Households...

The standard of English in this country leaves much to be desired.  This year, some 23% of students sitting for their MATSEC exams in English failed.  Only 41% of those sitting for an 'A'...

In the past, some believed in economic planning, others not. People who believed in planning did not everywhere share the same faith. In communist systems, the belief was absolute: all ends of the...

A national budget should never be treated as a shopping list. It should not be judged by how many new measures it contains. A Budget is much more important than that. It is the moment when a...