Two weeks ago, I invited all and sundry to take the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to bed for some late night reading. Well, for a change I decided to follow my own advice this week, and... how can I put this? I must say, I wish I didn’t. ...

Unfortunately, as with most other things, the discussion over what the country should do with illegal immigrants has got off on the wrong foot. ...

In l999, Malta’s national debt totalled Lm837 million (57.5 per cent of GDP)....

Local councils have featured in the news lately, mainly because Parliament is discussing the amendments to the Local Councils Act, but also because the Auditor General ...

As usual, Daphne has hit the nail squarely on the head with her account of the misfortunes of the Grech family (TMIS, 23 January)....

This will be my last article for The Malta Independent on Sunday. I said last week that the time might have arrived for me to stand in front of the mirror and take a look. ...

Malta’s economic history is a series of unexpected successes that have often resulted from capitalising on the misfortunes of other countries and regions. ...

Anthony Valvo repeats the persistent MLP myth that the current national debt is the result of the post-1987 PN administrations turning “a surplus of half a billion ...

Faced with a developing fascist threat in Malta, it is important to be thorough and draw the political demarcation lines once more, since the traditional left-right divide seems to be insufficient to contain this fierce and destructive attack....

While thanking Jesmond Saliba for kindly pointing out that the Microsoft package offer is available on-line, I would like to assure him that I HAVE come across the adverts announcing this. ...