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 ...

A young boy came to our offices one day last week. He is working on a school project on communications, and he chose newspapers as the type ...

Perhaps I should not be wasting my time and space to write about Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici....

Hearing some Nationalist MPs speak against the introduction of divorce during the parliamentary debate on the referendum question and in the media, I felt as if I was in Iran or under a Taliban regime....

The last few weeks, ever since the uprising in Libya followed what had taken place earlier in Tunisia and Egypt, the reputation of the Maltese government, especially of its leader Lawrence Gonzi,...

While the Maghreb region – and it is not the only place – is in flames as nation after nation protests and uprisings bring down long-serving leaders and threaten others, here in Malta we are ...

It was bound to happen sooner or later.The Labour Party was ready for it, prepared for the occasion with care, and the Nationalist Party fell into the trap....