By this time tomorrow, the world will be in the Trump era. As we write, the world, especially what we call the West, Europe, live the eve with trepidation, much as one would await the arrival of...

The scepticism among Europeans and many of their leaders toward the incoming new President of the United States of America is undeniable, and it has grown even more tangible this week in the lead-up...

Considered a masterpiece in the Western canon, Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' symbolically captures the absurdity, comedy and tragedy of humanity's attempt to reckon with a wasteland of...

Although a week has passed, comments and reverberations continue to echo with regards to what took place in Malta a week ago today when the Commission trooped to Malta at the beginning of the Maltese...

We have by now got used to the various statements by Minister Edward Zammit Lewis with regards to the hot potato dumped in his lap – Air Malta. Up till last Friday, when the government...

Increasingly, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil is finding it hard to cobble together a coalition to tackle Joseph Muscat’s Labour in the coming general election. Dr Busuttil seems to have...

This week’s visit to Malta by the European Commission was a wonderfully orchestrated affair. The dignitaries’ speeches and platitudes were all conducted with barely a hitch or hiccup, the...

If 2016 was the year the world, as we know it, turned on its head, nothing indicates that 2017 will be any different.  Even tiny Malta, now entrusted with the leadership of the largest...

It is not just that what up till yesterday were certainties have now become doubts. Maybe without our realizing what is happening, the world we were brought up in has changed, is changing, and we...

Parliament has, at long last, begun debating the traffic reform measures, which, most importantly, include a reduction in the legal limit for drunk driving, that were first unveiled last...