“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” – Voltaire   Oh, how I detest these...

My scribbling colleague at l-orizzont, John Agius, who is now responsible for the paper’s highly-informative weekly parliamentary double page, last week gently posed a series of searching...

The Feast of Our Lady of the Lily in Mqabba will be celebrated between 7 and 16 June this year, together with another important event – the 20th anniversary of the founding of our Musical...

This week was packed with topics and issues that could have formed the basis of an interesting commentary. We had a number of social issues and political controversies were not lacking, not least that...

I could only chalk it down to a huge misunderstanding, but Peter Fenech’s 19 May article in this newspaper certainly shocked and surprised me. Fenech’s opinions were expertly laid out, but...

Many countries round the globe are trying to carry out the paradigm shift to the digital economy. But what is this digital economy? The digital economy is the global network of economic and social...

This week in Parliament I spoke about a subject which is very close to my heart – freedom of expression, particularly freedom of the press. I was reacting to what Minister George Vella had said...

Much has been written and said lately about human sexuality. Some of it stems from reason, much of it from pure emotivism. Sex and procreation have gone together since the times before humans appeared...

This article was written with the intention of raising awareness on abusive relationships. In new relationships, it can prevent abusive behaviour from happening.  In more established ones, it can...

Kurt Formosa   For more than 50 years, the European Union (EU) has sought to introduce policies and regulations which benefit and protect consumers. Such measures encompass a wide spectrum...