‘Disability’ has always been close to home.  I was fourteen years old or possibly younger when I started cultivating this passion.  It all began when Fr Paul Chetcuti, a...

The silly season is round the corner. Many will break away,at least for a while, and enjoy the lethargies of the long hot summer days and beautiful nights.  This does not apply to a government...

European powers demolished Libya by blasting Ghaddafi out of the picture without knowing what would happen afterwards or perhaps even caring to know. Egypt went through moments of hope, towards a...

In the budget speech, the Government had announced the introduction of Islamic Banking in Malta. A year has nearly passed but there has been no word from Government about this initiative. In the wake...

The title I’ve chosen is an actual comment which somebody posted beneath one of the news reports about the Nationalist Party’s press conference yesterday. That press conference was about...

The Prime Minister is seeking a compromise which will allow him to proceed with the rape of Iż-Żonqor. It will be acceptable to all bar the extremists the Prime Minister was reported as...

  Collecting my wits at the end of a day that had seen terror writ large all over the world with three contemporaneous, probably planned, terror attacks, I am filled with an acute sense of...

Over the past months, I could not help but notice that politics has become all about deviation and opportunity rather than politics for the common good. This is indeed a pity and is starting to have...

Further education in Malta is relatively new in broad society whilst we still have remnants of the past who cling tenaciously to their political leader and the party machine for their source of...

When the first scandals of this Labour government began to emerge, like the Café Premier scandal, Joseph Muscat blamed the missteps on inexperience. Poor guy, he was still in the first episodes...