Recently, the reality overseas seems to be that bloggers of whichever socio-political inclination often find themselves in court to face libel charges as the orbiting Internet planet comes under...

Today we celebrate Valentine's day.  A day for commitments, desires and love.  Political parties are hardly our dream lover but I wonder if it’s time to see if we have fallen out of...

Give a man some power and you’ll find out what he’s really like. Never mind all the sweet talk that came before. The recent court ruling in favour of two additional parliamentary seats for...

Last Tuesday, the Catholic Church in Malta celebrated the feast of St. Paul’s shipwreck in Malta. What few realize is that it only  became a national feast day in the nineteenth century. It...

(1)        Transport Minister Joe Mizzi has said that there might be a garden in the ditch (if he finds the money, presumably from the €6 million carnival...

For some strange reason ‘alcohol stories’ in the media don’t seem to hold water.  It might be that the fact that we subsist in a society that is always busy organizing...

Last Sunday, Joseph Muscat said that the Labour Party always respected democracy. Well, maybe he should be reminded of what happened in the 1981 election, but given that in the same speech he...

I wrote this article while stranded in Gibraltar due to a bomb scare at the airport, which apparently had never happened here before. The power of the social media terrifies and...

I am one who strongly believes that politics needs to be authentic to have credibility. When authenticity starts waning, the electorate starts losing hope and trust in its politicians whilethe...

For more than one reason the feasts in Malta remain a showground for controversy.  As a state of fact, many would agree that the feasts do not just celebrate the Saint but also get the community...