Easter has now passed and the political parties are now expected to head straight into their respective electoral campaigns for the upcoming European and Local Council elections – five weeks of...

So, our Members of Parliament, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to go ahead and approve the country’s biggest capital project since the construction of the fortifications –one that...

From the greatest tragedies the greatest lessons can be imparted.  And if there is perhaps one single lesson to be taken away from the tragic inferno at Paris’ Notre Dame this week, that...

Another election is shortly upon us and, just like the last election Russia is once again popping into the picture. There are two sides to the coin of reports that the Maltese government has...

The adage goes to the effect that justice delayed is justice denied, but with the government apparently about to make a number of judicial appointments before it implements the Venice...

It has long been a hallowed Maltese tradition that a new road needs to be ‘christened’ with blood before it can really be used. Whether true or not, the past weekend has been a really...

Liturgically speaking, it was Palm Sunday yesterday. But in Malta's convoluted media, it was more like Greasing palms Sunday. The day began with a vicious spat between two of Malta's three...

Next week will mark a year and a half since the page opposite this leading article has had new inhabitants. You see, this space next to our Sunday editorial was almost always reserved for Daphne...

It was the first, if memory serves, or one of the first at the very least, press conferences of the 2017 general election.   Prime Minister Joseph Muscat stood there flanked by Finance...

It is not often that politicians admit they made a mistake. It is even rarer that politicians are prepared to pay the consequences of their error. Hermann Schiavone’s decision to suspend...