I was not surprised that Deborah Schembri chose the Labour Party. I knew she came from a staunch Nationalist family, and I am saying this only because it has already been made public. But I always felt from the way she spoke, and in p...

Members of Parliament are not elected to the House of Representatives to serve their conscience. They are there to serve the people who elected them. Now that the majority of us have vo...

Divorce laws vary considerably around the world. Very few countries do not permit divorce, such as Malta and the Philippines, although an annulment within the Catholic Church is permitted. ...

The divorce campaign has been unique in many ways.As we enter the final week and prepare ourselves for the vote - which I sincerely hope will be a majority of ‘X’ marks in the ‘Yes’ box - we can all start...

Helen D’Amato claims that her selective quote against divorce was not a deliberate mistake, and her superior, Minister Dolores Cristina, ...

According to Italian media on Friday, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that Italy and Malta have a common interest in the EU taking strong action on immigration. ...

Last week I wrote that a “No” victory in the divorce referendum will set Malta back decades. And the way the anti-divorce campaigners, led by the Church, ...

So the Curia wants us to believe that it did not order priests to hold “mass meetings” against divorce during the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. It im...

The metaphor is normally “il-polz tal-poplu” - the people’s pulse. It’s the measure that most politicians used to go by for a long time. Ever since a few avant-garde British colonials ...

I stared at the words for a long time.They are towards the end of the first chapter of Michael Connelly’s thriller A darkness more than night. The twists ...