There is no greater job satisfaction than when one’s efforts achieve their goal. It happened to me on reading the great news from the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO) that...

Henry Frendo   In 1975, during my time at Oxford, I was eligible to vote in the United Kingdom’s EEC referendum. As one who had voted for Britain’s membership of the EEC, I...

My website bears my name, hence it is mine. I do not use any pseudonym so that I can take full responsibility for what I write. If there is someone else behind Daphne Caruana Galizia’s website,...

The article entitled ‘That is Muscat’s blog, not Bedingfield’s’ penned by Daphne Caruana Galizia (TMIS 29 May 2016) contains a very malicious lie with respect to Justice...

In the middle of a long attempt to bring some order to a study overflowing with paper I came across the issue of The Malta Independent on Sunday (TMIS) for 15 March 2015. The front page as well as a...

For someone who has dedicated the past twenty years researching the ecclesiastical decorative arts in Malta, who has written three theses (undergraduate, Masters and doctoral) on the same subject, and...

I refer to the report entitled “The Order ‘was not in decline’ when the French came” (TMIS, 29th May). It deals with the talk Wirt Ghawdex had invited me to deliver a week...

Presently: A term like several others much abused and profanely used in modern parlance; at times purposely misused by persons aspiring to be in the limelight in politics, possibly in the hope of...

Last month, I attended an interesting lecture given by Fr Johnatan Farrugia on the life and theology of St Gregory of Nyssa at the Augustinian Institute in Pieta,. His...

The Nationalists try to spin the idea that they are the party of the self-employed. As these operators are aware, however, this cannot but be further from the truth. ...