“How would you like people to describe you?” Robert Abela was asked in the run-up to the Labour Party leadership contest in 2020.  “I am a simple man who enjoys simple things in...

We traditionally and politically associate the colour red with the progressive Labour Party, while the colour blue is associated with the conservative Nationalist Party. Mix both colours, and you get...

The US have bigger problems than Malta. The magnitude and the number of their problems which affect the globe are much worse than ours. We, and our idiocy, resemble a little fly that bothers a...

The Spiteri Debono presidency is off to a rocky start. As Myriam Spiteri Debono was being appointed President of the Republic with a Mass at St John’s and a walkabout to the Palace of the...

There is probably no other Constitutional office in our country more misunderstood than that of the President of Malta. For many people, the Office of the President of Malta is all about the...

The public opinion surveys being conducted about the European Parliament elections are shedding more heat than light. Their most consistent conclusion is that the Labour Party is always shown to be...

One sympathises with the complaints of people who totally dislike the prominence given in our midst to monuments which reflect Malta’s colonial past. Similar reactions have been registered in...

The debate on defence policy requires to be dealt with much more seriously than through pelting Prime Minister Robert Abela with eggs, as happened last Tuesday during a political activity at...

It’s Easter Sunday, and while we wonder where the first three months of the year have gone so swiftly, I cannot but remark on the Holy Week festivities that took place in Valletta in the past...

Today is Easter and most of us in Gozo have no other plans than to enjoy the day peacefully. Most of our Maltese friends maybe have gone through a waiting ordeal coming to Gozo as the Gozo Channel is...