I have no doubt that the Nationalist Party has a great leader. A very great leader. Neither do I doubt that the PN has several honest, hard working and valid Members of Parliament. ...

The recent regional elections in Italy might have been eclipsed by the death of His Holiness Pope John Paul II but they sent a loud and resounding message to the Berlusconi administration which crashed badly at the polls in a most decisive manner....

Unemployment must be the workers’ worst nightmare. Work is central to life and losing one’s job normally means a degraded lifestyle. ...

On several occasions I emphasised the role that the maritime sector could play within the new realities which would emerge after Malta joined the European Union last May. ...

A recent report in The Economist shows that, in the UK at least, domestic violence is dropping sharply while violence by strangers is rising equally sharply. ...

Some people have reacted badly to the election of a conservative pope....

As fate would have it, the last two editions of Bondiplus dealt with the papacy. The first was on the death of one pope, the other on the one who stepped into his red leather shoes. ...

As things happen, I missed the actual announcement of Pope Benedict’s election last Tuesday. ...

The Maltese Constitution, which is the supreme law of Malta, makes us proud of its limpid language, carefully crafted to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual. ...

A fortnight ago, Tonio Fenech, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and one of the government’s rising stars held a mid-week press conference that on the surface seemed very “run-of-the-mill”, but in ...