There are a great many ways in which practically every function of state has been all but captured by the government of the day.  It happens in plain view and it happens surreptitiously, away...

At times, we utterly despair. In the face of biggest government-linked scandal and weighty accusations of state graft to have possibly ever rocked the country, a pair of opposition MPs go, begging...

A few years back, the government announced, with much pomp and show, that it was making penalties for illegal hunting harsher than ever, in what was described as an effort to curb...

To the casual political observer, at times it must seem as though Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is playing straight out of US President Donald Trump’s playbook, and at other times it...

Since news moved online, it opened up new and unique ways of interaction between people, and with the news media themselves.  In today’s online world, people could read a story and...

George Vella yesterday was sworn in as Malta’s 10th President of the Republic, succeeding Marie Louise Coleiro Preca. He is only the second doctor to take on the post of head of state, the...

The more the UK gets near the 12 April deadline for Brexit, the more people in the UK are panicking. Any visitor to London can still see the London we know (and love) - people walking around,...

Acknowledging that you have a problem, they say, is the first step toward recovery.  But at the current rate at which we are progressing, it seems the government acolytes and the Joseph Muscat...

On Sunday, this newsroom highlighted the sorry state that one of Malta’s historic military installations – Fort Campbell, in Selmun – currently finds itself in.  The fort, built...

Last week, an NAO report on human resources at Mount Carmel Hospital was tabled in Parliament.  Irregular engagements, contractual design flaws and a weak contract management functions at Mount...