Dead in the water is one of a number of expressions that can be used to describe the situation the Nationalist Party currently finds itself in.  Six months after a new leader was elected, the...

It came as a surprise to many. Last week, Members of the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favour of eliminating what we all know as the summer time. For decades, on the last...

If someone were to try and snatch the crucifix from my wall, I would add a hundred more and ask him to remove himself from my home…and from these islands.  Fortunately no political...

Allow me to introduce you to Parisa Ahmadi, an Afghan girl who managed to buy a laptop thanks to bitcoin. Without bitcoin, this would have been impossible. In a patriarchal society like Afghanistan,...

Last December, a delegation of members of the European Parliament entrusted to assess the state of our rule of law left Malta with “more questions than answers”, with these concerns...

Everything has its positive side, even the Nadur Carnival ‘Mount Carmel’ van sketch.  The positive side to this otherwise insensitive ‘joke’ is that it finally got people...

The story The Malta Independent on Sunday carried of a young single mother fearing that she might be pushed out of her home along with her young boy if her rent is increased, had an enormous impact...

The bad storm of last week was yesterday forgotten as Malta celebrated Carnival with all the enthusiasm this celebration annually musters. There was a time when the repeated February storms...

In 1995, Italian politician Massimo d'Alema published a book called Un paese normale: la sinistra e il futuro d'Italia (A Normal Country: The Left and Italy's Future). I didn't manage to read it all,...

There is no greater misogynist than a woman treating other woman with so much disrespect, degrading remarks and humiliating descriptions of what is meant to be the most privileged aspect of...