When a good friend insisted that I should visit a tiny village in the heart of Sicily, in the province of Palermo, I initially paid scant attention. True, I was titillated by the knowledge that this...

As already discussed in previous writings, the artistic style of the Maltese artistic master Carmelo Mangion may be called prismatic-refractive, meaning that it portrays a view of reality through a...

The sheer scale of the figures in the tax avoidance case exposed by this newspaper’s sister publication yesterday seems to have left Malta’s political system reeling. Both the...

Even if you do not agree, you have to express some sympathy for those who complain that it was not right for European government to bailout banks. Why should they keep the profits for themselves and...

The Parliamentary Secretariat I lead organised a successful seminar on Assistive Technologies for Independent Living last Friday. From humble beginnings in the late 1940s, when a few sheltered housing...

I reluctantly emerged from my cosy lair once again to brave the chilly air in Valletta. I had been summoned to an open house at 315/316 St Paul's Street to take a look at the baroque Palazzo Prince...

This how the Anglican Bishops' pastoral letter on the 2015 General Election in Britain describes modern politics in Britain, and one may extrapolate this to all European politics. This ethical...

Today's revelation on our front page that former minister Ninu Zammit held millions of dollars in a secret Swiss bank account, as confirmed by Swiss Leaks data, is deeply concerning on a number of...

Qala. I hail from Victoria. My wife is from Xewkija. But together with our two children we live in Qala, a small village with a population of 22,000. It is the farthest village from Victoria, but the...

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