Damn. I must say, I enjoyed my early retirement while it lasted. For you see, not unlike a certain Romwald Lungaro Mifsud, I thought my mission was accomplished. I thought that, with Malta now safely anchored in the EU...

How time flies and memories fade, or should I say evaporate. George, our environment minister, did not take lightly to that piece of cardboard Dr Claire Bonello carried in the environment rally. ...

It has been rather disappointing, and in a number of instances petty, that the national debate on the introduction of the euro has to date focused almost exclusively on what the currency will look like and how its name should be spelt. ...

Is it any wonder that there has been no public outcry following the publication, the other day, of a damning report by the Auditor General on (a) the gross maladministration at the Voice of the Mediterranean radio ...

I am sure many readers have gone through the same experience. Wherever one goes in the world, it seems, there is no escaping a touch of Malta and the Maltese, however small a nation we have been and always will be. ...

(As seen on a billboard in the London Underground, well, not yet anyway!)...

There is momentum building behind a general impression that this government has damaged itself beyond repair and that the next general election is for the opposition to lose....

There is a law against the promotion of racism. I think there should also be one against the promotion of mass hysteria. It’s a pity that genetics and human rights provisions make it inadvisable to have a law against crass stupidity. ...

Since the dawn of time, politicians have been torn between a wish to say something memorable, and a terror of saying something which is remembered....

This year we were expecting another wave of irregular immigrants and since the beginning of the year, we have been organising matters so that when and if the expected wave hit us, we would be prepared. ...