Since childhood and all throughout life, we are offered lessons and we often like to say: I/we have no lessons to learn from anyone. Lessons are offered and or refused at all levels of society –...

The price of one of the most basic foodstuffs – bread – is set to increase by some 25% in the coming days.  The reports announcing the increase, first published by the Nationalist...

Minister Konrad Mizzi won a libel case and has been crowing all over Facebook about it. One would have thought this was a do-or-die libel case where his reputation was at stake. It is what...

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President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was criticised by many individuals last week for having signed the IVF Bill when she did not agree with its contents. Yet it seems that most of this criticism was...

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For Europe, there is more on the line at today’s mini-emergency summit on migration than national egos: there are several thousand lives at stake, as well as the European Union’s very...

A few days ago Henry Frendo, history professor at the University of Malta, wrote a letter to another newspaper complaining about punditry and the frequent peddling of factoids. I wrote an online...

In serving the people through public projects, each phase is a step forward in the implementation process of a set goal. Locally, periodic achievements are more welcome when aimed at the completion of...

The devastation sweeping Malta is not the Black Plague. One could be fooled however, into thinking the land itself is groaning and sweating in some epidemic. Our government seems to be made up of...