It is easy for the Opposition and the independents in the middle to raise mock horror after Robert Abela’s announcement of forthcoming cheques for workers and pensioners totalling some €70...

Tax refunds and cash injections make a good sound bite but when you chew on it a bit you soon see that they are nothing more than a smoke-screen and done to prevent the correction of the real disease...

As from the first day of this current month, a total of 95,000 pensioners, 53,000 workers and 15,000 students started to benefit from a global and total increase of more than €56 million worth of...

In the US, President Joe Biden is promoting the project of heavy investments in the digital sectors. He wants the country to recover its full technological capacity (if it has ever lost it) in order...

As Malta’s national elections are approaching, one should consider what motivates voters.  An analysis of the Maltese context must give due weight to the country’s characteristics as...

The news this week that PM Abela was on a retainer from the Planning Authority amounting to €17,000 per month compounds what thousands of Maltese have been observing for a while now. The Labour...

“The Ombudsman criticises us every year,” Civil Service head Mario Cutajar accused, “but he should be clearer about his own standards on persons of trust”.  The former GWU...

Subsidies are not well seen. They are considered as a method by which state funds get diverted to keep inefficient operations going while serving the interests of the few at the expense of the common...

“If the institutions are terrorising you, don’t knock on doors, come to me”. This was Robert Abela rolling back the centuries to the Middle Ages when William of Aragon became Count...

Is His Imperial Majesty plotting his return from exile?  Let’s pretend he succeeds.  Then, what?  Will he embark on his Hundred Days till he finds his Waterloo? To be then exiled...