Last Thursday was one of those very rare occasions when the Mepa Board, considering two different development applications submitted by the Freeport Terminal operator, decided on the one which will be...

It was a deadly boring session in Parliament last Tuesday. The House was discussing the Mepa demerger bills at committee stage in plenary, which meant that the members (or those who bothered to...

Recent events in Malta have, through a series of displays of sub-culture, challenged the ordinary man in the street to confront his conscience and opinion on the state of affairs and aroused that...

Marlene Farrugia's resignation from the Labour Party reverberated around the country. It was gripping news no matter where and how you picked it up. It was, however, interesting to see events...

Two and a half years into the Tagħna Lkoll game of power, cronyism, corruption and sleaze, Marlene Farrugia has done the inevitable and resigned the party whip. The fact that the party whip...

It was easy to predict that Marlene Farrugia would break her ties from the Labour Party. The question was not if, but when. The way she was speaking against the government she formed part of gave...

Regrettably it is becoming customary for columnists to write about the 'latest' attacks linked to terrorism or the most recent heartbreak related to the sinking of boats and people. But can one...

What a dreadful weekend. At the time of writing, the number of deaths following the shocking and appalling terrorist attacks in France reached 132, with many others receiving treatment for serious...

Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it. - Noam Chomsky We are humans, I think. Different from other animals. Different because we...

A few weeks ago, the Romanian Prime Minister resigned with all of his government in the wake of a night club tragedy which killed more than 50 young people.  Don’t expect Prime Minister...