The Competitiveness and Communications Ministry portfolio is relatively new. ...

I have a funny feeling it might be Carnival this weekend. Either that, or our capital city has been overrun by an unlikely army of giant, troll-like... um... things: each vying against the other for the dubious prize of “sorriest excuse for a papier-mâch...

In the first quarter of 2001, when the debate about membership of the EU was raging, the government and the Malta EU Information Centre (MIC) had made great issue with a Eurostat publication which showed that Malta stood, using 1999 data, at 52 per cent o...

The past week’s television discussion programmes have been superb. Int x’tahseb on Smash hosted Joe Saliba and Jason Micallef, Secretaries General of the PN and the MLP respectively. Stephen Cachia, Secretary General of the Green Party was not invited....

Public reaction to the army’s chosen method of quelling a peaceful protest at Safi’s detention camp can be divided into roughly three categories: outright condemnation of the army, outright condemnation of the detainees, and the inevitable fence-sitters (...

All you hear from the MLP is that this country is in a crisis. Talking to people who have just come back from Sri Lanka or Indonesia, I would say they are using the word crisis too glibly. These are testing times and times are difficult, yes, but do we ha...

As long ago as l9l7, Max Weber, father of modern sociology, remarked that although politics is not an ethical business, there exists, nevertheless, “a certain minimum of shame and obligation to behave decently, which cannot be violated with impunity, even...

Years ago, my former Cabinet colleague Lino Spiteri wrote an article where he said that the time had probably come for him to take a look at himself in the mirror. We never spoke about that particular moment in his life because these are very private mome...

As fate would have it, it had to be the first Gonzi budget that precipitated the ruling Nationalist administration into the eye of the storm, rather than the long years of hype and puff and spin that claimed that “the economy was moving in the right direc...

The surprising news of the week that the Labour Party intended to redirect the quarterly bonuses into a special fund must have put the Opposition Party in an uneasy situation. ...