If one were to find a quiet spot in the countryside, or by the seaside, where to sit down and reflect on the goings-on in current Maltese politics, what would one think about?  When I did it, I...

In March 2013, the new Labour administration was faced with a number of problems left over from the previous PN administration. One of these was the terrible state of the road infrastructure in Gozo....

Malta has been suffering from an environmental deficit for at least 50 years. Fifty years of sustained, or better still, unrestrained ‘development’ that has left irreversible scars on the...

Sometimes you meet someone in your life that inadvertently shows aspects of greatness, never realising the extent of the profound effect he would have on your life. He touches your soul in a very...

The corrupt, crazy and incompetent new President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump is the insecure, short-attention-span egomaniac he has always been. Many of his voters certainly...

Detraction, or the sin of revealing another person’s faults to other people without an appropriate reason, is grave indeed. One may argue, “I am not accusing anyone falsely! I am saying...

The Franciscan monk Mario Attard in his analysis in The Malta Independent on Sunday of 11th December gave the impression that it was only his indefeasible and unquestionable right as a priest to...

All the razzmatazz concerning Malta’s presidency of the European Council evaporated in a single afternoon with the sorry spectacle provided by Maltese ministers when grilled by the European...

The Prime Minister’s announcement that the next General Election will be held approximately a year from now, more specifically, around March of next year is welcome news for a number of...

There have been a spate of speeches in Parliament which have gone largely unnoticed maybe because they do not add to the main partisan polemic of the moment but which come from both sides, from second...