The boffins running the party machines in Malta know that, in politics, as elsewhere, images can be crucial — which explains why the ruling Nationalist Party is bent on capitalising on its track record that led to Malta’s eventual accession to the EU and ...

As the new year slowly moves in, and the first two weeks slide away, one tends to take a look back at the year that has just ended. 2004 was year of great change for this island nation. It saw us through to the EU, a new Prime Minister taking office, a ne...

We heard quite a few speeches by political and spiritual leaders over the Christmas period stressing the need for society to protect, indeed recover, its values. Excessive consumerism was forcing society to dilute its basic family, social and environmenta...

The current controversy over those large black plastic bags which have been heavily taxed has highlighted the fact that, in adopting new vocabulary, we choose American English over British English. Even the British English words and expressions that we ha...

Blaming it all on the welfare state seems to be the best and the easiest way to address most governments’ woes....

Tax hikes, government spending and price increases gobble most of the time available for political debate. ...

Although the younger generations do not recall restrictions on trade, Malta has experienced moments in history when everything which had to be imported required a licence. ...

Nothing perhaps better illustrates the non-seriousness of the demonstration today than Tony Zarb’s choice of words last Friday:...

The good, the bad and the ugly...

Most politicians sail with the wind. A few tack into the wind. Eddie Fenech Adami raised wind and threw the Maltese economy into a morass of national debt....