Collecting has always been an indispensable part of my life, though my perspective has mainly been that of an onlooker observing a collection grow and evolve across my formative years. Effort and...

Helena Dalli Last year, during a seminar marking International Women’s Day, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was asked by one of the seminar’s participants – who had registered a...

Many interesting news stories appeared in the local media over the weekend, but surely one of the most entertaining, yet saddening news pieces was an online report about the latest...

Following the commotion in the lead up to and during the election campaign over a number of reports drawn up by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit raised by the opposition and sections of the...

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An old Greek proverb says that “the beginning is half of every action”. It has – and always will be – my guide while serving in a public office. Getting things started is a...

One book with which I fell in love when I was younger was Martti Koskenniemi’s The Gentle Civilizer of Nations, purportedly a history of international law but in reality a history of the...

Fr Geoffrey G Attard   Having been born in Malta at the end of the seventies in a traditionally Catholic family in a relatively traditional environment makes it difficult for me to...

When Angela Merkel recently proposed changes to the marriage act in Germany, she immediately stated that there would be a free vote on the issue. The Germans are very wise when it comes to ethical...

In his autobiography, author Anthony Burgess wrote that, after he delivered a lecture on pornography and censorship at the University of Malta in 1970, "a fat Franciscan made a throat-cutting...