Whenever a controversial sentence is meted out by our law courts I usually prefer not to comment before first reading the court's case transcript. Unfortunately, the transcript for the 'Amy case' was not uploaded on the court's site even after I...

A couple of days ago Joseph Muscat did the unthinkable… in an unprecedented turn of events he actually shed some light on a couple of things that he plans to include in Labour’s electoral manifesto. The proposals included: The setting up of small...

After a long deep sleep in their world of four week recesses and bliss, our politicians seem to have woken up to the realisation that online and social media are going to be the most important tools in the next electoral campaign. Better late than...

Let it be known that I'm crap at math, and that maybe, managing personal finances is entirely different from managing those of an entire country. Having said that, I'm pretty sure that no matter what amount of monies you're talking about, pluses...

For once in my life I just to have to agree with the Bishop of Gozo who thinks that a family is a relationship between a man and a woman, who unite in marriage with the intention of having and raising children. According to Bishop Grech all other...

This blog was inspired by an eight hour long lecture that I attended yesterday – eight hours straight were delivered by the same lecturer, in the same room, with the same people.  Believe it or not, throughout the whole lecture, none of the students...

Surprising the one you love is hard....very hard. Usually, if they know you well enough and you're not an Oscar or Grammy Award winner they can tell when you're fibbing and when you're nervous. They can even tell when you're uncomfortable and...

Last Sunday this paper ran a story about a forty year old man who for some reason or other hasn’t worked in 18 years. Whether he doesn’t work because of physical or mental health reasons is unclear, but he has since then fathered five children - the...

By now most of you know that I don't believe that social media privacy exists. I believe that no matter what precautions you take, ultimately whatever you put on Facebook or any other social network is public and leaves a trail. This is why I do...

Lucky me, this week was all about rape and sex - two diametrically opposed, but highly related bodily acts. It all started with the court dismissing a woman's gang rape claim and this paper being first to publish it. As soon as the verdict went...