There are moments in one’s life that can never be forgotten. A fleeting presence in a situation, a look, a word, a glance, a retort. Some memories do stick...

        The story published on the front page of this edition shows very clearly that the issue of cruelty to animals is still very much present.   This year,...

In an attempt at showing us all how dynamic and proactive they are and how they leap about running the country, certain members of the government have taken to springing themselves unannounced on...

It is no surprise, at least not to me, that Europe’s new executive commission is mostly made up of men from right-wing parties.   In what was possibly a panicked attempt to readdress...

The events we have seen happening over the past months and (why not?) a sense of national consciousness should shed a very particular light on what we will be celebrating tomorrow.   We are...

In attempting to discredit Maltese workers who work in Libya, the Foreign Affairs Office in Malta continues to provide incorrect information and unfounded denials. As did Ms Maria Muscat, the...

One of the major problems that our nation is currently facing, and that will come back to haunt us in the years to come, is that of obesity. Make no mistake – obesity is a medical condition in...

    In his article Time to Wake up (TMIS, 31 August) Dr Michael Asciak refers to an opinion piece I wrote that was published in The Times of Malta (The right man for the job, 18 August)...

Creative destruction is a term coined by Joseph Schumpeter in his work entitled Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) to denote a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly...

As has become the practice for several years now, the government this week published its pre-budget consultation document; summer reading for the country’s constituted bodies as they prepare for...