It was a scene straight out of the panic-stricken Labour government years of the 1980s. It brought back memories so many of us would prefer to forget, but tell ourselves not to do so. Soldiers beating on riot shields, bearing down on unarmed, peaceful pro...

The government has given the trade unions a fortnight to come up with proposals on how the public and national holidays issue is to be resolved. Whatever the proposals, says government, the target of increasing productivity must be met....

“For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” – so goes one of Newton’s laws of physics, but more and more it seems to be applicable to everything this administration is doing....

“...And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. The winner of this year’s ‘Most Incredibly Cheeky Headline in a Local Newspaper’ award. And boy, I can tell you the competition this year was tough. ...

My phone has turned red hot with Greens calling from all over the island. They are fuming about the outrageous amendments to the Local Council Act proposed to be brewed by the PN and the MLP. Many of them have been shocked to find that I am delighted by t...

According to the latest budget speech, by the end of this month of January, government will choose who is to be formally responsible for the sector of industrial innovation. ...

The boffins running the party machines in Malta know that, in politics, as elsewhere, images can be crucial — which explains why the ruling Nationalist Party is bent on capitalising on its track record that led to Malta’s eventual accession to the EU and ...

As the new year slowly moves in, and the first two weeks slide away, one tends to take a look back at the year that has just ended. 2004 was year of great change for this island nation. It saw us through to the EU, a new Prime Minister taking office, a ne...

We heard quite a few speeches by political and spiritual leaders over the Christmas period stressing the need for society to protect, indeed recover, its values. Excessive consumerism was forcing society to dilute its basic family, social and environmenta...

The current controversy over those large black plastic bags which have been heavily taxed has highlighted the fact that, in adopting new vocabulary, we choose American English over British English. Even the British English words and expressions that we ha...