The New York Corleone family wants to acquire a casino licence in Nevada, and a senator, who sits on the relevant committee, pays Michael Corleone a visit, accompanied by his wife. He wants a kickback...

We are accustomed to the functioning of the linear economy. We extract the resources from the earth, we make use of them and subsequently when they are beyond their useful life, we throw them...

Many times our lives seem pre-ordained for us. There was a time when birth made a whole difference. If you were born as a serf, that’s how you remained. If you were born into a noble...

What is astonishing about both Joseph Muscat’s government and Robert Abela’s, after him, is the way they are so comfortable lounging and lolling about in sleaze, filth, and a city and...

It has been a breath of fresh air – at least for me - to hear a senior politician of a major European Party say candidly and clearly that authenticity is the key in today’s political world...

Public works were the first government function to get privatised. The Public Works Department as it was then known, was dismantled. The operations it ran were farmed out by public tender to the...

As the economy prepares to re-open, many of us are full of pent-up energy, with plans of what we’d like to do, and we’re in no mood to be judged or controlled by others. Funnily...

Naturally the talent of Destiny is there for all to hear.  Destiny might have the X-Factor, but in my eyes she is not ‘the’ national unifying factor as some would think and it...

The call out there is very clear, especially on the side of the Nationalist Party: we want new faces in politics. People yearn for political outsiders that have none of the baggage associated with...

It was a beautiful experience some days ago to walk down the streets of Valletta, in the burst of late morning sunshine. Especially down Republic Street, a sizeable crowd of strollers was to be seen....