I am writing before the no confidence motion in Government that the Opposition has moved.  The Prime Minister's failure to dismiss Minister Konrad Mizzi and his chief of staff Keith Schembri,...

There is a strong Labour majority in Parliament. And it used to be stronger. It used to be stronger within Parliament, and much, much stronger  outside Parliament.  That...

This week’s The Economist magazine carried an interesting editorial regarding whether the tax dues of politicians and/or citizens should be published. Some experts in taxation are making this...

By now it has dawned on everybody except the most wilfully blind that it is a not a matter of the Prime Minister being unwilling to force the resignations of his chief of staff and his favourite...

The real surprise is the fragility of superman Joseph Muscat. Ever since this Panama Papers business began, a very different Muscat has come to the fore: going about his business as though there...

There is an eerie atmosphere, rather than a kind of hush, in the current political situation on this blob of land. That we take our politics too seriously has long been admitted and confirmed...

Indeed, as the heat begins to set in on our lovely island, our home, we are happy and smiling and quick to begin making plans for sunny days out and cleaning the house from the winter...

The Labour Party will have no problem to overcome the hurdle put up by the Nationalist Party in the form of a no confidence motion that will be debated in Parliament on Monday. Its huge majority in...

Meeting Dr Godfrey Farrugia and Dr Marlene Farrugia at their home in St Julian’s had a peculiar feeling to it.  I’ve interviewed them innumerable times individually but I thought I...

There is a word that clearly expresses the political situation in Malta at the moment and this is qualunquismo. Qualunquismo appeared in Italy, after the Second World War, in reaction to Fascism and...