My dear readers it is now confirmed in the most official way: Bishop Mario Grech is not a big bad wolf. And who declared it to be so?, you may ask. The authoritative daily published by the General Workers Union recently declared so, albeit in a...

Those of my generation and, I am sure, many of subsequent generations, remember these words from the Beatles' "Hello Goodbye". These lyrics from the Beatles' song provide a good introduction to a piece I have been now putting off for a number of...

Someone asked me whether or not I will be rebutting the gratuitous accusations the Hon Dr Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando once more made against me. However, this time the honourable gentleman upped the ante by attacking me in the august chamber of the...

It is 8 centigrade, cloudy and with occasional showers. You read correctly. I am not referring to Malta. I am currently in Oslo. It is quite a distance from Home and the climate is also very different. The air is certainly cleaner. I came to Oslo...

The legalisation of divorce will, little by little, bring changes in Maltese society.  Or perhaps it will make us realise that the socio-cultural situation had already been changed. The number of couples living together without being married had...

Parliament's Select Committee for the Recodification and Consolidation of Laws which meets under the chairmanship of Dr Franco Debono will today resume its discussion on the consolidation of Press laws. I took part in the first meeting which was...

It is said that a picture is worth one thousand words; and so it does. Sometimes it would be worth much more. Two such pictures were published in The Times this Tuesday (May 29). Both photos are the work of Darrin Zammit Lupi, a former student of...

It has just been announced that the Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, has been arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential documents and letters to some sections of the press. The documents were taken from the Pope's own private studio, access to...

We generally associate communication with words, visuals and sounds. Communication is, nonetheless, also associated with silence. This statement may sound strange, but it is very true. We live in a culture that fears silence. I suspect that...

The celebration of Mother’s Day has now passed. Many mothers were pampered. Flowers, chocolates, lunches and all sorts of gifts were showered on the lucky ones. Hallmark cards were bought in abundance. Nice thoughts were shared all around.