A few days ago I was invited to take part in a discussion on certain bioethical issues on Dr Andrew Azzopardi’s radio show on Radio Malta. One of the invited phone-ins was Parliamentary...

Late summer notebook It has, by all accounts, been an unbearably hot summer. It still is. It  gave me a kind of satisfaction to check the temperatures in Malta and in the Mediterranean and...

This week holds a special significance for this country and for the Nationalist Party. This year, the Nationalist Party will celebrate the 135th anniversary since its founding. It will also be...

Time and time again we have seen Europe and the world at large recoil in shock and horror at the multiple shipwrecks in the Mediterranean that have claimed, between them, thousands of lives. Last...

It has been a while since stopped wondering why some people are so negative about all the good results attained by this government. There were times when I was led to believe that they could still...

The disturbing report about the alleged heartless brutality inflicted on that 10-year-old boy at Mount Carmel Hospital’s youth residence, which I came across on your paper’s website last...

As the PN’s theme for this year’s Independence celebrations is “135 years of the PN for Malta”, I would like to ask whether Dr Simon Busuttil will present these facts, since...

The forces of Catholic reaction, including lawyers and university professors, came out in full force to “protect” their religion, as soon as it was announced that it will no longer be...

In his apostolic letter about Saint Augustine of Hippo, entitled Augustinum Hipponensem, written on the occasion of the 16th centenary of his conversion, Saint John Paul II...

A couple of weeks ago, a military court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don sentenced a Ukrainian film director to 20 years in a maximum-security prison after convicting him of terrorism. In...