My attention this week goes to the many letters, in my opinion, far too many, written by British citizens, who tend to pontificate on Malta’s needs, whether touristic or not, and take the liberty to use our own newspapers to hurt us. ...

Marcello Lippi gave us a perfect example of what it means to exit while on top. Just when he had the whole country at his feet heaping glory for the unexpected victory at the 2006 World Cup against many odds....

Some people say that the reason many Maltese fly the flags of other nations during the football season is because we never make it to the World Cup....

It’s all over. The joy, the pain, the tears, the beers, the highs, the lows, the fantastic month-long period of football mania that is the World Cup....

Earlier this summer the Foreign & European Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives had occasion to visit Finland apart from three Baltic states....

The “immigration season” is now in full swing as boatloads of irregular immigrants depart from northern Africa and ferry across the Mediterranean towards the southern European shores. ...

So little, dirty, dusty Malta did not make it to the World Cup, and may never make it....

If there is a safe bet around it is that tonight the blues will win the World Cup. What remains to be seen is whether it will be Gli Azzurri or Les Bleus....

A sometimes surrealistic view of the foreign fodder resting tenderly on your plate....

I was amazed by the response to my column last Sunday – so many of you feel the same way about the shocking aggression and poor manners and standards in Malta. ...