It made sense for the Prime Minister to start his Australian visit in Fremantle, the port city where so many Maltese children were unloaded like cargo for a life of 20th-century slavery. ...

My friend, the intellectual Kian Tajbakhsh, is in jail in Iran for, well, being an intellectual. He has not had access to a lawyer nor any visitors since being jailed for espionage and undermining the state. ...

Tangible success is achievable thanks to a progressive and realistic vision. The results our country achieved in recent years are fruit of the practical foresight that the Nationalist Party administers....

On Monday 16 July the MLP’s Parliamentary Group and National Executive committee unanimously approved the party’s draft vision statement on foreign affairs. As announced months ago by MLP Leader Alfred Sant,...

One of the things many foreign visitors find hard to understand is the juxtaposition of absolute wealth and absolute poverty in Malta....

The choreographed launching of the pre-budget consultative document was no doubt aimed to dazzle the eyes of a tired electorate waiting for the day when they see a new dawn that will augur a better future for them and their families....

A society that seeks full democracy must devise a system that guarantees civil and political liberties. The right to elect one’s government is not enough....

Carmel Cacopardo, in case you don’t know, is a man known to be honest, difficult certainly, but honest first and foremost. He worked for MEPA in that most difficult of roles – an investigative officer. Honesty is very rare here let’s admit it. ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s call for the European Central Bank to intervene to curtail the soaring euro is commonly seen as a sign that he neither understands nor trusts markets. Indeed, some now view Sarkozy as a traditional Gaullist who ...

Is Maltese democracy live and well? To what extent is Maltese democracy run with the consent of the governed? ...