When I was a boy, Rete 4 used to broadcast a Japanese animated series called Star Blazers. It featured the sunken WWII battleship Yamato – ‘Yamato’, Japan’s traditional name,...

There is a sense in Europe that the story has run out – a sort of European existential tiredness, if you will. In his well-argued polemic The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity,...

In a global and connected world, no country can improve the competitivity of its industry and the standard of living of its citizens without digitally transforming its economy and society at large....

Public sacrifices once had an important part to play in politics. I can’t pretend to know what it was like, but I imagine it to be similar to that episode in Game of Thrones, when we watched a...

This Christmas has surely been a great blessing to me: a friend of mine gave me a Christmas present that I truly keep appreciating for the rest of my life. I was lovingly given a copy of the book...

Learning should take place in a relaxed atmosphere. It takes time for knowledge to sink in and time and space should be given just as when you water plants. The best rain in Malta is the type that...

The fact that a private business venture is having a hard time finding its feet would, under normal circumstances, not attract too much media attention.  The fact that a private business venture...

Barely had the New Year's bells stopped pealing, leftovers been disposed of, and tinsel and lights taken down than the year's first thorns started to appear. In truth, they were always there but had...

In normal circumstances, it would have been foolish for the Opposition to demand the termination of an agreement with a private investor. But these are not normal circumstances, for the 'investors'...

Over the past month a reform was brought in, initially with the least publicity, but it now has turned out to be a quite controversial reform that could have negative impact on business in...