This week at the European Parliament, the Malta government was scheduled to present its programme for the EU Presidency. At almost the same time, elections were due to be held for the presidency...

Perhaps some of the most important political sayings that bear relevance to the political history of the Nationalist Party are to be found in the works of Seneca, the Younger. In this blog, I shall...

The new Nationalist Party candidate, Salvu Mallia, stood outside the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday, wearing half a sandwich-board decrying government corruption and the European Commission's...

I still can’t get over the death of Lino Arrigo Azzopardi. We got on well together and were good friends. On either side of the EU referendum and accession, we were part of a small media...

The Chamber of Architects has taken the Planning Authority to task on the piecemeal local plan reviews that it has been churning out, one at a time. The latest tirade was with reference to a partial...

We are all so chuffed now that we are just a hop, skip and a jump away from the culmination of all the heavily guarded projects entrusted to Konrad Mizzi, together with his Panama audit reaching their...

“No man has the right to give his opinion on abortion,” controversial PN candidate Salvu Mallia said on INDEPTH.   Interviewed by The Malta Independent news editor Rachel Attard,...

As Donald Trump, soon to become the leader of the free world, gave his first press conference as president-elect, Muscat became the “president” of Europe. What do these two men have in...

I couldn’t help but begin this column with what were – sadly – not the famous last words of the Speaker of the House. What were the odds that, faced with all the excitement of...

Correctly, no high expectations are being raised that on immigration, there could occur during the Maltese presidency of the EU any significant positive developments in European policy for the sector....