My brother David suffers from a learning and intellectual disability. To put it simply, he's thirty years old with the mental age of a six year old. Despite his condition, he is a brilliant swimmer; he can hold his breath for more than a minute,...

The worst kind of let downs are the ones you walk straight into. They’re the ones your better judgement warns you about but you just don’t listen. And this is exactly what I did with the new IVF Bill. I had convinced myself that the PN – the...

What do confetti at weddings, clowns at circuses, promises during election campaigns, and suspended sentences in Malta, have in common? I know, I know... our prison is full to the brim; it’s over populated; it’s grossly under staffed; it’s a drug...

Last Friday the case of 10-year-old Ella Bridge who for two whole years had been in the midst of a jurisdiction and custody battle between her parents, finally ended. Though the AG will be appealing the decision, on Friday the presiding Judge...

As a young pupil who attended a strict, traditional Church school, I remember very often being told that 'children should be seen and not heard'. Probably because my parents were never the unyielding tyrant types, this phrase was hardly ever used at...

A man has died in unusual circumstances. He was nothing less than a human being like you and me, and yet he no longer speaks, breathes, lives. His mother is heartbroken, his siblings are devastated and his friends are inconsolable. Whether he...

We're clearly in election mode and with only a few hundred votes separating the two big parties in the last election, who can blame either of them for going after 'the gays'? The Labour party seems to be doing this more tactically and strategically,...

I’m betting my last dollar that there isn’t one single racist in Italy today. With Balotelli’s performance yesterday, he went from mad Mario to Super Mario and now everybody seems to have turned egalitarian and all-embracing of the darker race. It’s...

Most politicians will never admit this but deep down citizens know it, and it’s the truth and nothing but the truth - the personal IS political.  I shall not go into the feminist history that originally coined the now infamous phrase, but in essence...

About a month ago a nine year old school girl launched a blog about school dinners. Martha Payne who attends a primary school in England started photographing her school meals and rating them on a blog called Neverseconds. Within days of launching...