As it happened, I got to know of the government's plans for the Valletta Suq a day or two before they were made public and my reaction then is the same as the one I will be writing today. The...

I’m not particularly gripped by referendum fever. Much as I would like to engage in an intellectual discussion about it, I really have little to add. I am not awaiting the outcome of the...

Next Saturday, we will be voting to give a future to the wild birds that migrate to Malta. By removing from Malta’s statute book the legal notice that permits the spring hunting of quail and...

Once again, as regular as the full moon, the latest opinion poll has confirmed Joseph Muscat’s advantage in the ratings.  Each  time some election or another approaches, the...

During this time of the year, known in the Christian Calendar as Holy Week, Catholic Malta will be celebrating the Passion and the Resurrection of Christ. As always happens with important religious...

Hunting, for Joseph Muscat, will be what divorce was for Lawrence Gonzi. Whatever the outcome of the 11 April referendum on spring hunting, Joseph Muscat will be remembered in history as the...

Now that it is out in the open that Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who flew 150, including himself, to their deaths, had manifested strong suicidal tendencies before he got his pilot’s licence,...

Unless you’ve been living under this little rock instead of on it, you probably know that there’s no love lost between the pro hunting lobby and me.  The truth is however, that there...

Dear Leah,   I write this column as the news spread like wildfire that you have passed to a better life.  No parent should be burying their child, particularly after having seen...