I get the feeling that this is how changes are made in our educational system: we go round in circles and adopt past practices that were later done away with. I got this feeling when I heard...

When, in November 2015, De La Rue had announced the downsizing of its workforce by 300 employees, Simon Busuttil’s In-Nazzjon of 23 November 2015’s main front page story read: ‘Id-De...

In my recent discussions at the university on the subject of the increasing links between Malta and the University of Warwick, I have become very aware of Post-Referendum, Pre-Brexit nerves....

To talk about prehistory is as presumptuous as foretelling the future. To believe in something is one thing, to prove it is another. How can anyone presume to know what went on in prehistoric times...

We often read in obituaries that so-and-so went to his "eternal rest". "Rest! No, not for an instant!" wrote Sir Henry Thompson, an eminent surgeon and one of the first to pioneer the idea of...

Nigel Farage is the person who undoubtedly influenced the Brexit vote. He persuaded many that an inordinate number of foreigners were coming to live in Britain. He simply did not want them in the UK....

Someone high up must have read his Kafka. We are now living in Kafka time. This is Kafka country. So the government desirous, it said, of ensuring transparency and justice for all, decided to...

From the perfectly legal yet ethically questionable sale of citizenships, to the visa and residency permit racket run by Joe Sammut, to the abnormally high number of visas given to Algerians and...

K.B. Napier (TMID, 7 February) has painted a rather gloomy picture of the UK, which I am sure has raised a few eyebrows among both the Maltese and British readers of this newspaper. ...

A new strategy for the European automotive industry has just been agreed upon and launched by the European Commission with the aim to keep the manufacturing of vehicles and motor cars viable on a long-term basis at affordable prices....