People in the media, and all of us reading and listening to us, thought we would have a relatively calm summer after the chaos and pressure of the unexpected general election campaign in May. Instead...

Maltese people, we’ve been told, are well known for their love of animals. Yes and no. You meet people who seem to haveonly dogs, rabbits and cats as their immediate family, really their...

On Wednesday an earthquake of 4.4 magnitude on the Richter scale was reported in the Maltese Islands. As far as we are aware, no damage was caused, yet it would is appropriate to consider a number of...

I dare use the title to this piece for one reason alone and it is certainly not out of any disrespect to people who have every right to hold different views on the issue of the immigration crisis in...

The Nationalist Party should be ashamed of itself. From Simon Busuttil down to the least important official, they should be ashamed of the way they allowed the campaign for the new leadership to...

In August forty-nine years ago, the then Soviet Union invaded the former Czechoslovakia.  In protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of his country, Prague-born Jan Palach, 21,...

As it changes its operating patterns, terrorism in Europe is succeeding to massacre innocent people. But in no way does it seem like it is reaching any kind of target that a jihad supposedly tries to...

In Sunday’s Illum dated 12 August, the Nationalist Party candidate and lawyer Joe Ellis wrote a damning article wherein he exhorted Frank Portelli and Adrian Delia to quit the...

I leave the island for two weeks (not to go back to my own country, don't get too excited) and all hell breaks loose. Like a toddler that has been left alone with its mother's makeup bag, common sense...

Dr Toni Abela, in his customary style, has re-ignited a debate that in more ways than one has been making the rounds for quite some time, namely that of regularizing brothels. Dr Abela during...