On 10 June of 78 years ago, speaking from Palazzo Venezia in Rome, Benito Mussolini announced that Italy had entered war. The next morning, Italian planes started bombing Malta. The Maltese have...

The latest European Drug Report came out last week ant it did not paint a pretty picture. Not that there reports ever do, but this latest one highlights some very worrying trends.  According to...

So according to the Labour Party and its media outlets, it is the Opposition that is ‘doing everything it can to ruin Malta’s reputation’. They will stop at nothing in their quest...

The idea of developers building first without the required permits is an insult to the Maltese public, to the Planning Authority, and to other developers in general. If a developer feels they...

They had to drag a dead man into it so as to score a point but the details shame them and, worse foretell more bad news for the national airline. In Parliament this week, the issue with ARMS...

France this week served up a second lesson in good governance and political accountability in as many years, lessons that Malta would do well to heed....

Tony Blair was accused, including by politicians on the same side of the political divide, of taking the UK’s Labour Party far away from its core principles. His predecessor Margaret Thatcher...

The time has come for the planners to disregard the constant carping that would hinder the planning of new roads for Malta. Granted the sheer amount of cars on the road is at an all-time high and...

The local political scene, such as it is, was yesterday enlivened by a conflict of figures. On the one hand, there was the results of the new monthly MaltaToday survey which showed a prime...

If a week is a long time in politics, 10 years is even longer and the last two years for Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, since the Panama Papers came crashing down on his government, must have been an...