One of the first and most important duties of new parents is giving their child a name.  Many go for the most traditional, at times choosing the name of a relative who passed away, or going for...

We find at Cana two embarrassed, newly married spouses, caught unexpectedly with a shortage of wine. When they realised what had happened, I imagine they felt they simply wanted to disappear from...

This very leading article warned two days ago that there was more trouble on the horizon brewing with the latest migrant standoff involving Malta, Italy and the NGOs who are rescuing people out there...

Prostitution reform is a subject that emerges in the press from time to time, but is often overshadowed by other news items like government scandals, or environmental controversies. Regardless...

The latest political chess move by Matteo Salvini could spell big trouble for Malta.  The Italian firebrand interior minister has withdrawn his party’s support for Giueppe Conte’s...

Earlier this summer, Parliamentary Secretary Roderick Galdes announced that the second project of the Specialised Housing Programme will be run by the NGO Mid-Dlam ghad-Dawl (MDD) in collaboration...

The ill-advised and misguided ‘partisan and personal use’ of the state apparatuses by politicians has continued unabated since so many lines of demarcation were blurred or completely...

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In 2010, national governments across the EU agreed to implement a strategy entitled ‘Europe 2020’ – a strategy that has five targets, one of which is to remove 20 million Europeans...

The Commissioner for Standards has issued a scathing report on how backbenchers’ loyalty to the Government stands a very good chance of taking precedence over everything else in matters that an...