Everybody is talking about the YouTube video that’s doing the rounds by email, the one in which our future prime minister wears a wig fashioned after the hair of a Playmobil man and talks like somebody whom the bouncers are about to eject from a bar....

This week I’m writing my column from Delhi and Bombay. I love India. It is a perfect assault on all of one’s senses. But I can’t help but think life here is a bit like a three-tier wedding cake....

The last two weeks have been characterised by a spate of press launches by the three major stations and two of the television production houses (26th Frame and Brainbox) as the race for viewers and those all-important ratings gets underway....

One of the lighter moments in our local news this week (apart from the undoubtedly very good news about the Ramla permit being revoked) were the conflicting stories ...

In the coming days – perhaps even hours – the destiny of Burma (also known as Myanmar), and the fates of over fifty million Burmese, will be decided. Today’s crisis has been brewing for many years....

The concept of “democracy” is equated with “freedom”, “equality” and “popular sovereignty”. These ideals are so appealing that different kinds of regimes pay lip service to them....

Budget Day is round the corner. In reality the Gonzi administration has been so positive during the last three and a half years that...

29 years ago exactly today, the world woke up to be faced with the incredulous news that the papacy of Albino Luciani (John Paul I) was suddenly ended by his sudden death after merely 33 days in office. ...

What is World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (6 October)?...

In the same week that the European Commission launched a consultation period, open to all, on the budgetary reform in view of the review that is to take place in the next two years...