The latest hot topic in Parliament has been a controversial Bill concerning the period that a person can be held under arrest without charge. Bill 49 – as it is numbered in Parliament...

I see that Lord Coe has finally put his foot down. The president of the International Association of Athletics Federations has just announced that no transgendered woman may any longer take part...

A group of people organized a clean-up event in Comino last week around the old abandoned hospital, where they said they collected around 140 garbage bags of rubbish. The Nadur Nadif volunteers...

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Prime Minister Robert Abela was somewhat offended when he was told that he could not be described as a socialist.  When confronted by journalists on the subject, he went into a long diatribe to...

In his opinion piece about the Villa Rosa project, Carmel Cacopardo (The coast and coastal areas belong to all of us, TMIS, 26 March, 2023) makes a number of arguments that merit a...

Treasures is edited by Giovanni Bonello who has just been awarded a D.Litt. (Honoris Causa) by the University of Malta. I have been unable to go and collect my copy from the offices of The Malta...

The role of the leader of the opposition is a constitutional one by virtue of Article 90 of our constitution, and is one that forms part of the Executive. It is a role that carries with it duties and...

The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace and Redemption in Vietnam  Author: George Black  Publisher: Knopf / 2023 Pages: 496   In the US, we've mostly moved on from our...

Nights of plague Author: Orhan Pamuk Publisher: Penguin Hamish Hamilton / 2022 Pages: 683   This is one hefty door-stopper of a book, decidedly strange among the author's...