Last week I met an elderly lady on a mission. She told me she is determined to at least try to change attitudes in most shops and offices in Malta. She said – and I later confirmed –...

On 1 May, I wrote, perhaps too late, a review of my friend Oliver Friggieri's autobiography, Fjuri li ma jinxfux. This novel, translated in English by Rose Marie Caruana, covers more or less the same...

The nation has a tendency to love politicians and treat them as deity and hate those who challenge them, including journalists, a senior media lecturer told this newsroom in an interview published on...

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Like every one of us, President George Vella has a right to his opinions and, as a newspaper that believes in freedom of expression, we will be the first to defend him if this right is...

The hushed-up appointment by government of Chief Justice Emeritus Joseph Azzopardi to investigate a single incident that involves the Office of the Attorney General might, at face value, appear to be...

It is commendable that government and the Opposition agreed on the issue of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis (PGD). It is also commendable that politicians were allowed to vote their conscience. This was...

I and my wife have just returned to Italy after a week-long amazing vacation in Malta. We read your article (Traffic and tourists, The Malta Independent editorial, 27 July) at the airport and we have...

This multi-headed monster can be detected anywhere. It is commonplace to think that it is rife only on school premises but we cannot neglect looking also outside school premises, at the workplace,...

Palazzo de la Salle in Valletta has been the seat of the Malta Society of Arts since 1923. It is alive with activities and a pleasure to be there - even though there is no lift, essential at a certain...