Much of our country’s lifestyle inspiration, and not just football, comes from our neighbour to the North. But immersed in the minutiae of our own electoral campaign, most people have had no...

Just as Malta registered the second highest GDP growth rate for 2012, news came that another small country – Slovenia – is on the brink of a bailout as its government verges on...

Well. Actually it’s less than two weeks. But the campaign will kick off in earnest now, as the political parties make the final push before going to the polls.   Yesterday saw the...

Those members of the of the electorate who have not become totally engrossed with the Nationalist and Labour cross-party allegations of rampant corruption, illicit wall clocks and blocks of ice, or...

Let us forget the quality of the arguments put forward by students during the MCAST debate this week and let us just focus on the general behaviour of the crowd.   It was actually hard to...

With this current election campaign having been all but completely submerged in scandals - recordings, oil importation commissions and blocks of drugs - or ice depending on which version of events one...

Someone’s neck ought to be on the chopping block this morning.  We are, of course, talking about the billboard which the Nationalist Party has put up. In a nutshell, Joseph Muscat’s...

The election campaign has run into the murky shallows. No one is discussing the electoral manifestos of the parties. Nor even the most salient points in them such as PL’s proposals for a new...

Doctors in the UK have recommended that fizzy drinks be heavily taxed in an effort to fight obesity.   The recommendations come to light after a New Zealand woman died after years of...

Two-thirds into the campaign, it is unfortunate to note that the main subjects that are being discussed are not what the two main political parties are proposing for the next five years. What has...