What time is it?
Thursday, 10 November 2016, 07:41
Last update: about 11 years ago
Alfred Sant
Some people in Europe are arguing about the usefuness of the system by which as winter approaches, we put our clocks an hour back. So, dawn arrives “earlier”, and equally dusk. We have...
Not just an obituary
Wednesday, 9 November 2016, 08:15
Last update: about 11 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
I found this article incredibly hard to write. Losing Jacqui is more than just bereaving a colleague. As Dean of this lovely Faculty, numbering hundreds in academic and...
The COLA - Trick or Treat?
Tuesday, 8 November 2016, 09:04
Last update: about 11 years ago
Gejtu Vella
Halloween is a secular festival. It is characterised by children’s parties, teenagers in gruesome costumes and others believed to engage in macabre spiritual activities. Halloween is...
American elections
Monday, 7 November 2016, 07:41
Last update: about 11 years ago
Alfred Sant
No matter what the outcome of the American presidential elections, this has been the most dangerous campaign in the US for generations. It has highlighted and reinforced the social and political...
Federica Mogherini and the future of the European Union
Monday, 7 November 2016, 07:38
Last update: about 11 years ago
Simon Mercieca
Last Wednesday, I attended an extremely interesting lecture given by the EU Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta. The lecture...
Gear-change time
Sunday, 6 November 2016, 10:45
Last update: about 11 years ago
Noel Grima
The movement of history is not a linear one but one that develops in fits and starts. You can go for a long period and nothing happens and then everything happens all at once. Then there is a gear...
Not funny anymore
Saturday, 5 November 2016, 09:53
Last update: about 11 years ago
Rachel Borg
Malta’s climate offers up a small but essential feature of our daily life – running around in flip flops for around half of the year or more. This little luxury has the effect of...
Public transport, traffic could be Labour’s downfall
Friday, 4 November 2016, 09:49
Last update: about 11 years ago
Salvu Mallia
Traffic issues and an inefficient public transport could be the Labour government’s downfall, Salvu Mallia argues in his vlog today. Pointing fingers at Transport Minister Joe Mizzi, Mallia...
Oh look, another coincidence
Friday, 4 November 2016, 09:20
Last update: about 11 years ago
Claudette Buttigieg
On 19 May 2015, Konrad Mizzi, as Minister for Energy and Health, issued a press release announcing the preferred bidders for the €200-million investment in our health system. Among the companies...