“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”   — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations       As Malta stands on the threshold of the next General Elections, this timeless Stoic wisdom from Emperor Marcus Aurelius invites us to reflect on what truly shapes a nation’s well-being. Happiness, both personal and collective, […]

The 2026 Family Court reforms were launched with high hopes for faster, fairer, and more child-focused justice in Malta.   However, these important changes cannot succeed while Judge Jacqueline Padovani Grima continues to preside over Family Court cases.     Credible concerns persist: fathers’ applications face repeated delays and often receive no notification, while mothers’ […]

Hekk kif kull jum li jgħaddi jqarribna lejn l-Elezzjoni Ġenerali, jiġuni f’moħħi kliem Fernando Pessoa: “The vote is the expression of an individual opinion; it is not an organic synthesis, but a mechanical sum. Democracy is the sum of everything anti-popular, anti-social, and anti-patriotic.”   F’din il-loġika purament aritmetika, kwalunkwe nazzjon jista’ jinħakem u u […]