450,000 years ago we had elephants the size of a large dog (90 cm high) in Malta and gigantic swans double their size. In small islands small mammals increase in…

Lorenzo Milani (1923-67) was born 100 years ago into a well-to-do, intellectual and secular Florentine family. He disappointed his parents by not going to university and taking up painting instead.…

I will not be able to attend the National Environment protest on Saturday 27 May 2023, as I will not be in Malta. I hope that the protest will be…

Malta is the ninth most densely populated country of 235 countries/territories in the world (World Bank Report 2021): 1,384 persons per square kilometre. Only Monaco (26,523 per sq km), Gibraltar…

Born in the early fifties, people of my generation were brought up knowing very little about our Maltese Islands. Most of our syllabi of Geography, History and Literature were about…

Children are spending more time on Tik-Tok, Instagram and You Tube that in the company of their parents, In school we have two distant planets that hardly ever meet: the…

A month ago Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was sent to prison in Italy after fleeing justice for 30 years, in which period he visited many countries including Malta, Tunisia…

It's time for trade unions to start protecting exploited migrant workers Last November, a number of people were brought over from India, Pakistan and Nepal to work in tourism. But,…

    We can lose control of our destiny without being invaded and occupied militarily by any of those powers who still consider us to be in their sphere of…

His successor Ian Borg says our constitution is ‘flexible enough’ as it is. A team of experts should be set up to propose a rewrite of Malta’s constitutional neutrality, according…