Former European Commissioner John Dalli, who was given half an hour to clear his desk at the European Commission and then went on to evade prosecution in Malta and fight prosecution abroad, has...

There has been a resurgence of strike activity in France recently. Social conflict has long been brewing there. Now it boiled over when the government decided to give effect to a “reform”...

The people in this country amuse me. Now that the ‘open season’ for the celebration of our favourite patron saint takes off we see devotion like no other.  Non-stop...

I think we can agree that fiscal morality is the backbone of good governance supporting social justice. We can also agree that public funds should not be squandered.  Similarly, we can subscribe...

It has become common for Prime Minister Joseph Muscat not to stick to what he says and take his decisions depending on the people he is dealing with. We’ve seen it of late with the way he...

One of the biggest failures in Europe as of now, is in the poverty sector... if “sector”  is the appropriate term to define where the problem lies. Here’s one target set by the...

Minister George Vella should be thanked for having taken the time, through E. St John, to reply to my blog about the current relations between our Government and Libya. I must also thank him for...

Glenn Bedingfield, 41, is not a journalist or anybody who makes his living in the media. All his adult life he has been an employee of the Labour Party, except for a brief period when he ran a Birgu...

Three parliamentary votes — all with the same result — would seem to have buried the Panama Papers issue, and in any other circumstance would have found the entire country up in arms...

Some people who run some of the voluntary organisations that go by the hip term of NGOs really can be such downers. I much prefer those characters and those organisations with an optimistic view of...