The Internet and the World Wide Web remain the biggest decentralised communication system humanity has ever seen. This was a key part of the design: the inventors of the Web envisioned all people...

The Nationalist Party resembles a patient bedridden for over a decade. The decline began after 2013, when the defeat of Lawrence Gonzi left the party in shock and without direction. Since then, every...

That reading and buying books have declined as activities is a well-documented fact, not just in Malta. Everywhere, booksellers have shut up shop. By way of consolation, so we get told, there has been...

Last week ('Government's Legalised Rape of Malta's Environment', The Malta Independent on Sunday, 3/8/2025), I stated that Bills number 143 and 144 of July 2025 were in breach of the rule of law: 'The...

Realities around us can and do change and most of the time, we cannot alter the path of the changes taking place. We ourselves are also subject to the effects of change. We can be healthy...

It is useless asking why we all seem focused on our small world to the exclusion of anything happening beyond our shores. That is our insularity coming to the fore, again and again. Twenty-five years...

The news that the government intends to give great swathes of public land on the southern coast, to speculators for the building of three hotels (one of them in a historic fort), a coastal promenade,...

I was one of those cynics who had reservations when the Malta Press Club was set up 25 years ago. I had publicly expressed my doubts whether the venture could succeed, given the erratic behaviour of...

Last Monday I met an Eritrean mother of three who, despite living in appalling conditions, is eternally grateful to Malta for giving her children the chance to grow up safely. A couple of years ago,...

Let's settle this score once and for all I say.  Give us back our property and our rights as landowners and stop this gross injustice now.  It is like there are two or three Maltas. One...