We may not have had parades and parties to mark Malta Pride this year, but we can still celebrate the progress we have achieved. If there is one government that has proved the strength of its...

There is a distance between our minds and the perception of reality when we choose to endorse unproven claims that cleverly mask the truth. We are left looking around us, unable to tell the...

The country was shocked a week ago when an elderly woman was mauled to death by two dogs at her family home in Gzira.  Two simultaneous debates kicked off as soon as the news broke. The first was...

Equality. Which wellmeaning person wouldn’t consider it as a value to cherish, a political aim to which to aspire? And yet, which smart person wouldn’t think that unqualified equality is a...

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The new Attorney General, Victoria Buttigieg, has a daunting task ahead of her. She needs to restore credibility to the office she leads, but this is no easy task, given its apparent failures over the...

From where we are standing, there are very few known variables as to how this pandemic will proceed. However, what is certain is that it will irrevocably reshape life as we know it, and by the time...

We are all still familiar with the scenes in Barcelona and Venice last year when the tourism industry was showing the signs of a mass activity that had lost its real sense of hospitality and service....

On 12 September 1965, Mons. Michael Azzopardi made the first public appeal for donations to Id-Dar tal-Providenza with a heartfelt message roaring over the national radio waves. Our society has seen...

Summer is almost over, yet the European Union has done practically nothing to help countries like Malta and Italy on the migration issue.  Despite all the talk of European solidarity and of...