The more Robert Abela brags that “the institutions are working” the longer doubts linger on. In a situation of normalcy, which we have a right to, there is no room for a Prime Minister...

If I could direct a cartoon artist for today’s issue, I would tell him to draw Prime Minister Robert Abela in all his monumental build surrounded by a horde of attacking dogs yapping at his...

One day you arrive home and you find that the house is flooded by a water leak.  Some pipe burst and water is flowing out into the kitchen and around the house and all the furniture is getting...

  It does not take you much time taking care of the portfolio of Research and Innovation to realise that University is indeed a giant, by our standards, in this field.  Over time it has...

European socialists are doing the right thing – and I am fully aligned with what they’re stating – when they insist on the priority of an environmental policy that will contain...

“Kite flying” is a strategy used in politics to test the people’s reaction to a particular proposal or issue: you broach a proposal, without too much commitment, and see what...

Our social sector needs a good shake up – I have been saying this ad nauseam. In these last years we have morphed into our comfort zone thinking that all is well. We keep telling ourselves...

This week my mobile phone went berserk with messages from acquaintances close and far on the Prime Minister’s leaked letter to the President of the European Council on the supposed European...

Perhaps the main rule to follow in the public management of a democratic state is that of transparency – the need for all citizens to get timely information about matters that are being decided....

I don’t know about you, but I am seriously concerned over this sudden cultural change that is occurring among us. It is an Italian trait, particularly from nearby Sicily, which historically...