Like any other crisis, the Libyan conflict keeps escalating or splintering, depending on your viewpoint. New ideas, new decisions, new entities and more active groups keep budding and branching. But...

Tampering with our national language, our unique indigenous tongue, no matter where the agitation originates from, inflicts undesirable harm with long-lasting repercussions. True lovers of Maltese,...

Recently the poem "The Higher Mathematics" by G.K. Chesterton, for some reason, came to mind. The first stanza reads as follows:   TWICE one is two, Twice two is...

Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher of the pontifical household, delivered the first Advent sermon which centred on two important points. First, the urgent need of loving Christ. Second, the...

I write with reference to the article entitled "UNHCR prepares action plan for Malta to stop detention of migrant children" (TMIS, 6 December). UNHCR appreciates that The Malta Independent gives due...

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It is pretty much par for the course that the government at large is using, time and time again, the very same tactics of working the system to protect its individual members who stand accused of the...

A few months ago, a new debate on Mikiel Anton Vassalli was sparked off when Paul Catania of Naxxar discovered an early 19th century prospectus promoting the great patriot's unpublished dictionary and...

This is supposed to be the heyday of sellers as the approaching Christmas days mark the usual buying spree days with lights, colours, noise and crowds all conspiring to drive us all to buy, buy and...

Workers on the state payroll are soon to be given a set of guidelines by the government when making use of social media, and public speaking. Malta seems to have a bit of a grotesque relationship...