Most comments regarding the Auditor General’s devastating report about the lands department concentrated on topics related to governance. However there is another matter, perhaps equally...

The moniker King of Lands passed into popular parlance some months ago when Michael Falzon’s questionable ‘customer care officer’, Clint Scerri, used it to describe himself on...

There was a haunted look on the Prime Minister's face as he allowed Michael Falzon next to him to cast doubts on the Auditor's report on the basis of which Dr Falzon had resigned. There was the...

I couldn't help remembering a G.K. Chesterton quote as I watched the small gathering of Maltese "patriots" waving the national flag and eating ham sandwiches at Msida the other day. It goes: "My...

The day that a political party would have really made changes to Malta is that day when we start to not care about politics.   Corruption, scandal, resignations, rivalries, lies, libels,...

Another week, another scandal. Another resignation. I write this column every week and, each time, I find myself asking, “How low can this government go?” Well, looks like...

The current news is the resignation of Michael Falzon from parliamentary secretary following the Gaffarena scandal. I will be taking up this story in my next blog, as events are still unfolding, since...

For a lawyer to demand that a journalist reveals the source behind the publication of a story is obscene. For this lawyer to demand such an obscenity when representing a Labour government minister in...

So Michael Falzon is the fall guy, as he was set up to be all along. Yes, he should have resigned – and in effect, he didn’t, but had the Prime Minister sack him instead. But then the...

A new optimism is prevailing in Europe regarding the prospects for economic growth. It is hard to say precisely why this is so, since one cannot claim that economic growth prospects are strong, even...