The result has come and gone. The Greek people, united in adversity, have voted no to the bailout conditions which were presented to the Tsipras government.  Banks are mostly shut, and people can...

These are certainly troubled times we are living in today. But as we here in Malta may be somewhat diverted by public scandal after public scandal as they roll off the presses almost on a daily basis,...

In the last session of the Gvern li jisma consultation meeting at Fort St Elmo in Valletta on Thursday night, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat acknowledged that Malta has a long standing traffic problem...

Were it any Maltese man, he would not have been arrested. Were it any Maltese man, he might have been given a few choice insults, but he would most certainly not have been spat at, slapped and abused...

European leaders last week haggled until they were blue in the face over the resettlement of 40,000 refugees inundating the  coastlines of Italy and Greece, but yesterday’s report by the...

The European Union has been accused of alienating itself from the citizens of the bloc, preferring to concentrate on macro matters such as, of course, the potential of Greece exiting the...

In Malta, we often talk about the things that we see when it comes to the environment and conservation of the local ecosystem. This is, of course, natural. We complain about protected birds being...

We have been here already. In 2011, then-Prime Minister Papandreou, facing a poll defeat and without the courage to take the decisions needed to save the country from a huge deficit (brought...

The public’s trust rating in the police force has this week suffered a double-blow: one in the form of an officer’s confidential personal file having been leaked straight from the police...

The direct broadcast of Parliamentary sittings online and on TV has become a real game-changer in Maltese politics. The first taste of the Maltese counterpart to Prime Minister’s question time...