In his ‘Allegory of the Cave’ Plato narrates the painful journey his cave dwellers must take: from darkness to sunlight, and from ignorance to enlightenment if they are not to…

In November 1839, John O’Sullivan was writing in ‘The United States Democratic Review’ that the US had the divine mandate to expand its territory across the North American continent from…

As of January 2026, EU sanctions have taken effect disrupting Jacques Baud’s daily life by freezing his assets within the Euro zone and prohibiting EU citizens and companies from making…

On Christmas Eve, 1953, the head of the Maltese Imperial Government, Governor Sir Robert Laycock called at the residence of the Maltese Prime Minister Dr George Borg Olivier. Not finding…

Just over 500 years ago with even about 20,000 inhabitants, Malta was  judged  to be overpopulated, because it could not grow enough food for its people. The last time our…

In his ‘Allegory of the Cave’ Plato narrates the painful journey his cave dwellers must take: from darkness to sunlight, and from ignorance to enlightenment if they are not to…

Kien f’ Awwissu ta’ 1994 meta l-Professur Victor Axiak ta’ l-Università ta’ Malta beda proġett mal-Universita’ ta’ Katanja biex jużaw is-satellita Amerikana LANDSAT 5 biex jirriċerkaw dwar il-kwalità tal-baħar Mediterran…

Kien bis-saħħa ta’ mara li mietet u ħadd ma resaq biex jidfinha li beda d-dfin fiċ-Ċimiterju tal-Addolorata. Fil-21 ta’ Jannar 1872 Anna Magro min-Naxxar indifnet fl-Addolorata wara li kienet mietet…

Il-pjan tal-President Amerikan Donald Trump għal Gaża hu ta’ paċifikazzjoni mhux ta’ paċi, jiġifieri li ssikket u tmewwet kull ħidma tal-Palestinjani biex ikollhom stat tagħhom. Il-paċi, il-ġustizzja, id-dritt li l-Palestinjani…

‘Frak mill-istorja – ħarsa minn taħt’ includes snippets about: - the vegetable soup that helped solve a deep political crisis; - the hermit who fled to Comino after the Pope…