Poets have different relationships with poetry. How do you approach it and why is it necessary in your life? For me, poetry offers a way to come to stillness, to look at the world around me with...

You were recently appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Malta. You are well known for your curatorial work, especially at The Phoenicia Malta. Is...

One can forgive the Minister of Health, who is a doctor, not a lawyer, for suggesting that there may be a change in the law so that doctors do not need to report a crime like an abortion to the...

It is one thing to win an election. It is quite another to govern a country. To govern is not to rule. It is to serve. And to serve well, a democratic republic needs more than politicians. It...

The question of Gaza's status has been one of the most contentious issues in modern Middle Eastern politics, carrying profound legal, humanitarian, and moral weight. Nearly two decades after Israel's...

The fact that such an erudite lawyer as is Dr Kevin Aquilina ('Government's legalized rape of Malta's environment' - TMIS August 3) concluded, amongst other significant observations, that "the...

The Maltese note first - the Maltese sadist bishop. Along the long list of people who in one way or another had to do with her family along the years, Oriana Fallaci mentions, without saying he...

My second visit to the Caravaggio 2025 retrospective exhibition at Palazzo Barberini in Rome felt like a homecoming. Not just to enjoy the paintings but to continue to appreciate the raw emotional...

Age is but a number. Or so it is said. As it happens, age is a lot more than just a number, particularly when considering whether one is classed as an adult or as a minor. That may seem cut and dry on...

According to the latest figures released by the National Statistics Office (NSO), government expenditure on Social Security Benefits from January to June 2025 rose by a staggering €85.3 million...