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...

I am pretty sure that both sets of party strategists are rubbing their hands after the recent polls conducted and published by Malta Today.  From whichever angle you interpret the outcomes they...

Not so long ago, under a Nationalist administration, trade unions were very active in showing their disagreement each time something that negatively affected their members came up. Spearheaded by the...

Unfortunately, Malta, as yet, is not a producer of black gold.  Various attempts were made by different administrations to tap this resource.  From time to time oil exploration missions were...

I have to admit that I do not have much faith in PN's Conventions. I was invited to the first convention and refused. I ended up lambasting that Convention, calling the PN a weird party. The PN...

Do we believe in a caring society? But what does a caring society stand for today, when so many people contribute to L-Istrina and the rest while falling in with the slogan that the market...