Social media gives a very clear picture of the current state of Maltese society. This is particularly so when it comes to the way people think about politics, and politicians too. Some might consider...

The original law setting up the Standards Commissioner’s Office, whose job is to investigate complaints and disciplinary issues concerning MPs, lays down that the Commissioner must be elected...

We are living one of the strangest winters of our lives. Malta normally boasts very temperate winters, in fact it often is one of the country’s strongest selling points to visitors from the...

I read with interest The Malta Independent leader, which appeared on 9 January 2023 entitled Malta’s colonial mentality rears its head again. I am afraid the editorial opens with an ambiguous...

Malta International Airport said it registered 80% of pre-pandemic passenger traffic during the whole of 2022. This shows that the tourism sector is, slowly but surely, recovering. In fact in an...

A story published by The Shift this week showed how – despite every denial that members of the government have issued – political clientelism remains very much alive and well. The...

Farmers must have sighed in relief when it rained last Tuesday. We are going through an anomalous winter, if we can call it such. Temperatures have been higher than normal in the past weeks. We...

Has anyone measured if the level of frustration among the Maltese people has increased since the introduction of the plastic bottle return system? This was a question that was asked – using...

Trevor Żahra is of course possibly Malta's best-known author. And yet, we think of him often as a children's author, even as an author for adults, but we many times forget that he started out...

Carl Gustav Jung was born in Switzerland in 1875. He was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyist who founded analytical psychology. His writings have been influential in the fields of psychiatry,...