Our Constitution expects that the President of the Republic to protect and defend the Constitution of Malta. However, that same Constitution fails to provide the President with the required tools in...

Whenever a new initiative crops up, you do have to ask, "Cui bono?" ("Who benefits by it?") Often, the supposed beneficiary is not the one being pushed forward, but somebody else who lurks in the...

Something that has always intrigued me is how the brain works. When I write an article and some brainy people understand the exact opposite of what I mean to express, I question not just my writing...

Way back in time, a group of Roman senators got together and on the Ides of March (15 March) overthrew and killed the budding dictator Julius Caesar, well believing they were acting in defence of...

"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.  Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.  And their grand-children are once more slaves" - D.H....

The Local Plans currently in force, when they were approved, were a first serious attempt in these islands to regulate development at a local level. The need had been felt for far too long....

A secretly shot film of a jubilant Prime Minister and his wife singing and celebrating, with attendant champagne, like two little kids recently made the rounds on the social media. It grabbed the...

I had to wait for quite some time opposite the Boy Scouts Headquarters in Hamrun on Friday. The scouts were holding a Carnival party inside the former Hamrun train station. Mothers and fathers...

Some time ago it was revealed that secret hate groups that circulate online had Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat and the President of Malta Marie Louise Coleiro Preca as members.  The partisan...

A collected volume of writings on Vassalli has been recently published, entitled Fuq il-Passi ta' Vassalli, by the 'Vassalli Exclusive Club' within the Akkademja tal-Malti, edited by the indefatigable...