The Environment and Resources Authority has very kindly replied to this newspaper’s editorial last week, which questioned exactly how Malta could have seen the European Union’s highest...

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“The Maltese pension system has a significant redistributive function, and contributes to the protection of the elderly against absolute poverty. The impact of the reforms initiated in 2014, and...

"Democracy is inherently self-destructive," one of the many professionals backing Partit Demokratiku, but keeping a low profile, told me after the vigil on 16 May. "As soon as most politicians...

The proposed development of the ITS site at St George’s Bay has raised the concerns of many and for good reason. People living in the area are worried that the development will have a negative...

Declaring that an eight-cell human embryo is not a human being has a purpose. The idea is to convince people by spinning a tale – that the embryo is not human but only a product, a commodity,...

Hubris is a weakness to which politicians are particularly susceptible. This is mostly apparent in the tendency of politicians to pontificate from above to lesser (non-politician) mortals on...

Heritage Malta will be organising two special tours during the month of October. These two initiatives follow previous similar events which have proven very popular and which have sold out within a...

Following the successful conference entitled The Roman Inquisition in Malta and Elsewhere, Heritage Malta has just inaugurated an exhibition about the Roman Inquisition at the Inquisitor's Palace in...

So Patrick Vella did the decent thing and pleaded guilty, sparing the nation, himself and most of all his family from a sordid procession of witnesses and their sleazy testimony....