I thought I would write a couple of lines following your untimely death - but where do I start from?  Well maybe I should begin from the fact that you are now six feet under I suppose. ...

In the past years, I have regularly penned my views on a wide range of issues but, admittedly, this is the first time that I write with a heavy heart.  I have rarely ever felt my blood boiling...

There should be no doubt that something is seriously rotten in the state of Shakespeare’s Denmark as far as Brussels is concerned. The march of the populist Far Right across the continent is...

The impasse between MCAST's administration and MUT is worrying many students and parents. Its timing is certainly not the right one for the students. This is after all their exam time. This...

The debate about how to run checks and balances in modern democracies is a crucial one. Such mechanisms are essential to ensure that there is no take over by the tyranny of a majority or by the...

An agreement was reached in the past days between Minister Michael Falzon and BOV to help individuals, who normally cannot borrow money from banks to become owners of their own home. A similar...

There are not enough eyes in the world, to roll enough times, to do justice to the actions of the Nationalist Party dinosaur Edwin Vassallo this week. In a move far surpassing any of his previous...

The entire government, both the Konrad Mizzi faction and the Chris Fearne faction, seems in an almighty eagerness to get us to stop looking backwards and to look forward, to sweep all this Vitals...

Karmenu Vella, EU Commissioner for the Environment, is enthusiastic about the possibility of a plastics tax being introduced throughout the EU. In his view, this tax – if properly designed...

The Labour Government of Joseph Muscat has now been in office for nearly 5 years and still we continue hearing the calls for resignations from not just the Opposition parties but also from the...