It is nothing short of a national disgrace that the Maltese government is willing to bend over backwards and defy its agreement with the European Commission for people who are able to pay hundreds of...

The history of the Maltese Parliament has many glorious pages and many not so glorious pages. Monday was one of the latter. The meeting of the Public Accounts Committee received a letter from the...

We thought it would be bad in October once the schools started, but as anyone who was out and about on Friday can attest, we now know that the coming Christmas will be a nightmare on the...

‘The establishment’ seems to have become the catchphrase of the day in Malta, with both the country’s two main political parties having pointed accusatory fingers at each other and...

With the public consultation process on the new Delimara power station wrapping up today, there are many questions that have been left unanswered. And perhaps the most prominent of those issues that...

The long-fought battle by the Nationalist Party to get redress for a mistake that took place in the counting hall in 2013 finally obtained results with yesterday’s decision by the Constitutional...

Someone high up must have read his Kafka. We are now living in Kafka time. This is Kafka country. So the government desirous, it said, of ensuring transparency and justice for all, decided to...

From the perfectly legal yet ethically questionable sale of citizenships, to the visa and residency permit racket run by Joe Sammut, to the abnormally high number of visas given to Algerians and...

The UN humanitarian chief says conditions in Syrian rebel-held eastern Aleppo have gone "from terrible to terrifying and now barely survivable." Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council on...

The prime minister has become a sort of a globe-trotter. One day he is here, the next he is there. In recent days he has spanned the world’s continents: holding a conference in New York one...