I’ve repeated this often enough. If it isn’t music to your ears, just flip over or don’t click on this article. It’s all Daphne Caruana Galizia’s doing.  When she...

Trying to make head and tails of what happened at the latest hard-fought, six-hour, diatribe-filled executive council meeting of the Nationalist Party is like treading through treacle. Time and...

Throughout Europe, Ministries of Education rapidly put in place measures linked to the closure of schools and launched remote teaching initiatives to support school leaders, teachers, parents, and of...

A friend showed me a list of wellknown cases that had reached the courts and stalled there. It’s quite a long one. It covered cases flagged by scandal about corruption, abuse of power, fraud or...

Can we say that people in Malta are reconciling work with family life? A recent publication by the National Statistics Office (NSO) provides important data on the matter, using 2018 as the year under...

The tax on financial services, labelled the financial transactions tax (FTT), has been back in the news as a tax the EU could charge in order to secure a new source of revenues. These it needs to...

Living on a small island probably causes genetic loss. Particularly in the eyesight. Some people stop seeing things rationally, and get engulfed in an emotional vision of the world. There are many...

The civil war within the PN has no end in sight. This does not only inflict considerable damage on the PN: at the end of the day it damages the whole country. The two instances of a vote of no...

If we do make it through the Moneyval test, we will have done it by the skin of our teeth, seems to be how most positive commentators reason. In the words of some sage Maltese politician,...

Looking back on these traumatic days, we can see the dramatic decline of Adrian Delia from Leader of the Opposition to 'kap sfiducjat'. All through last weekend the President of the Republic sent...