Ever considered how one keeps making the same mistakes over and over again even when one tries one’s hardest? It is as if we are wired to keep falling into the same pit. One knows what the moral...

The gospel of Wednesday, 16 November, of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary time, spoke about investing well. In the Gospel taken from Luke 19:11-28 Jesus recounts the parable about making use of what...

The last months offered some very interesting developments in terms of international affairs. A few months ago, the majority of people in the UK voted in favour of leaving the EU block, which took...

Political correctness has gone mad. Respect for the opinion of experts is now at an all-time low.  During the US presidential campaigns, the media made a lot of terrible mistakes and is not being...

 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...

The long-fought battle by the Nationalist Party to get redress for a mistake that took place in the counting hall in 2013 finally obtained results with yesterday’s decision by the Constitutional...