The Prime Minister's wife is making a big mistake by flashing herself around and having the government's Department of Information issue press photographs of her meeting this or that star or dignitary...

On two successive Sundays, a seemingly ad hoc crowd came together and demonstrated in Valletta. One had an immediate cause to it - hunters protesting against the suspension of the hunting season...

Europe has again defeated the US in the Ryder Cup. Where golf is concerned, there is nothing we need to learn from the US. But in the handling of the economic crisis, there is much that Europe needs...

After a couple of no shows, our President, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca has made it to the Vatican.  With Michelle and Joseph launching their platforms at the UN in New York there was perfect...

The opening of the forensic year brought about two contrasting views about our system of justice. The first one was that expressed by Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri and the other by Auxiliary Bishop...

The barbeque season is not yet over but grilling is still on everybody’s mind. In Karmenu Vella’s case, the order went from medium to rare but never well done. It was a far cry...

This country of ours is flooded with idiosyncrasies.  In more ways than one we are a peculiar community that contradicts what we say with what we do - inconsistency galore! Let's take...

The prime minister, confronted by a journalist from this newspaper during a visit to the university, was asked whether John Dalli is still working for the government. This time, there was no 'tu...

  We live in a world that is made of spin, built on spin, and believes in spin. Spin is creating a make-believe world and sooner or later most are inveigled in it, it surrounds us,...

  The Scottish independence referendum has predictably caused a major ruffling of the nationalistic nest spread out all over Europe. People, who have never felt comfortable within old unions...