Around this time of the year, one particular news item perpetually resurfaces - the COLA.  The yearly cost of living adjustment makes up for consumers' purchasing power erosion in the previous...

In the past days, the Nationalist Party organized a national convention on the theme IdeaMalta. Perhaps, it would have been better had it been termed IdeaPN, because the first thing that the...

Following the discourteous exit of Lawrence Gonzi, not only from the reigns of the country but also from those of the party Leadership, somehow everyone 'knew' that the next in line would be Dr Simon...

We live in strange times and bizarre things keep happening all around us near and far. And in times of such unprecedented uncertainty, people tend to either ignore things and suppress any grey matter...

As the story of Labour's fabled power station becomes ever more tangled and complicated, it is evident that this is not a matter of the project been late, or delayed, as the press and the politicians...

It was Minister Varist who gave the game away. On Monday, during the debate asked for by the Opposition on the power station delays, Minister Evarist Bartolo spoke well before Minister Konrad...

Few people realise that what they are getting for free is not free at all. That someone else is paying for it. When we speak of free education, free health care and a wide array of social...

It was one hell of a week - one so busy and hectic that, on Wednesday evening on my way back home from the office, I didn't even have the energy, or the will, to change the radio station tuned in on...

I know bullying is the latest social catchphrase and I know it causes problems at whichever age one experiences it, but excessive use of, and exhaustive reference to the issue can often lead to a...

The role of 10 fora created by the leader of the Nationalist Party is to reverse the headless chicken mode that his party is in after two successive electoral defeats. Whether he will succeed or...