For the past six years, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has been playing at being Malta’s knight in shining armour, who has our country’s good at heart. I was one of those who believed,...

Living on a Mediterranean island like ours makes it easy to forget that Europe is facing yet another scorching summer battling unprecedented heat-waves.  Unbearable record-high temperature levels...

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” – Reid Hoffman, co-founder and executive chairman of...

The 15th August, the Feast of Santa Marija, is of great significance in Malta for many reasons and Operation Pedestal in particular looms large. It is the day when the SS Ohio limped into...

Prior to the general elections of 2013 and of 2017 Joseph Muscat and the Labour Party presented two electoral manifestos to the nation. They included promises galore; promises of heaven on earth;...

We find at Cana two embarrassed, newly married spouses, caught unexpectedly with a shortage of wine. When they realised what had happened, I imagine they felt they simply wanted to disappear from...

In 2010, national governments across the EU agreed to implement a strategy entitled ‘Europe 2020’ – a strategy that has five targets, one of which is to remove 20 million Europeans...

Real competitive advantage comes to countries that differentiate between, and sustain, what they have to offer through education, innovation and productivity. In order for our country to prosper...

Make way, make way for the opportunists and hypocrites as they come wailing and gnashing their teeth for the latest chopped-down tree. They mourn our environment while cheering on Europe’s first...

That the extreme-right views associated with Salvini, Le Pen and Boris Johnson – to say nothing of Trump – are taking a hold in Malta is evident. This normally happens because people find...