The high numbers and the respective reproduction rate of Covid-19 are not mere abstractions. Behind the numbers there are deaths and there is suffering.  Even if a person or their loved ones have...

On the surface, Simon Busuttil's words on George Pullicino during last Sunday's Nationalist Party activity seemed to be in defence of the former Resources Minister, under fire as he is from the Labour...

Last Monday, in Parliament, I was sitting right opposite Konrad Mizzi and Joseph Muscat as they tried to deflect attention from their failure. I wasn't just listening to what was being said. I...

Hasn't Leanne Camilleri, the 20-year-old whose false sexual abuse allegations landed her father in prison for more than a year, had enough of a terrible life already? When she was found guilty of...

As I said in my previous blog, 'A Church in melt-down, a Renault 4 and a pair of binoculars',  I consider myself a judicious practicing Catholic.  I must say that an element of...

Cheshire Cat:    "By-the-bye, what became of the baby?" Alice:         "It turned into a pig." Cheshire Cat:    "I...

The recurring theme of the Labour Party general election campaign - other than the theme of how corrupt and incompetent the people were who took Malta into the European Union and the eurozone when...

Fifty-two years ago, on a hot day on 11th October, still a young MUSEUM teenager, my face was glued to the windowpane of Farrugia 'tar-radjijiet' showroom in High Street Hamrun for a full four hours,...

The fear of history repeating itself forced me to re-read the story of Germany between 1928 and 1933. By 1928, Germany was recovering well from the shattering experience of the First World War and the...

A former senior police officer, ex-Assistant Commissioner Michael Cassar, was in the news recently in connection with the case instituted by the Prime Minister against the Opposition Leader following...