I really do not know why so many Labourites, just because the election was lost by a whisker, think that the Nationalists will now ponder and wonder as to how they will govern. ...

Gonzi, I think we have a problem – and no, his name is not Jeffrey (who has apparently become an Untouchable)....

Relative in-laws – potentially I’m still on holiday ... only this is a different one. I just crossed the Chunnel and am busy introducing a group of French potential in-laws to the beauty of the Garden of England that is Kent....

Labour’s delegates have voted against widening the leadership election to take in party members. Only the naïve, or those who have scant understanding of human nature,...

A new legislature has been inaugurated and parliamentary life resumes precariously as the Gonzi administration navigates, this time round, with its wafer-thin majority. ...

Was it Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour who, after the unification of Italy in 1861, admitted rather candidly: we have finally made Italy, now we need to make Italians?...

Statements that the output of manufacturing has decreased and that of the tourism industry has increased may lead some to wrongly conclude that tourism has overtaken the manufacturing industry in importance and size. ...

A couple of weeks ago I attended the informal meeting of the Competitiveness Council Ministers in Slovenia together with Finance, Economy and Investment Minister Tonio Fenech....

The noise problem in the Sliema, St Julian’s and Swieqi areas is of concern. It concerns our better living, and that of the tourists who decide to spend a holiday here in Malta. ...

Today marks the 21st anniversary since the PN gained government in 1987 following 16 years of Labour administration. They have been in power ever since, bar a short 22- month interlude, ...