Having successfully avoided being impaled by the forthcoming spring hunting referendum, the government promptly walked right into another conundrum: that posed by its own pre-electoral agreement with...

Today is Valentine's Day, the international celebration of love and lovers. Some enjoy the day, others do not. Some enjoy spending time with their other half, some feel sad because they do not have a...

All the talk over the past couple of weeks has centred around the decision to place the Monti in Ordnance Street. The news that it would be placed between the new parliament building and the Teatru...

The amnesties on planning infringements currently being contemplated by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority are, at best, an exercise in defeatism in the face of several thousand cases of...

The news that Islamic State supporters might have made gains and taken over a small desert town did not make many waves in Malta yesterday, after a report in the Libya Herald stated that the Daesh had...

The government has branded itself as the government that listens (Gvern li jisma). It often jars with the Labour Party's pre-election pledge of Malta belonging to all of us (Malta taghna lkoll), the...

Greece's new prime minister came to power two weeks ago riding a wave of hope for change. But his pledge to rewrite the bailout agreement that has kept the country afloat for nearly five years doesn't...

Parliament is due to debate the government's hedging policy tomorrow following a request by the opposition but, just as in the case of the recent energy sector debate, this one too is bound to be...

Female genital mutilation – also known as female circumcision – was made illegal in Malta in January of last year. Yesterday was World Day against FGM. The law came into effect after...

The world can only hope that the Islamic State has turned all Muslims against it after its barbarous and utterly heinous and callous behaviour towards one of its own. The shocking way in which...