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....

Some people are so surprising – or perhaps they are entirely predictable. ...

Judging by the amount of noise being made by the unions about the protest march tomorrow, one would think that Maltese workers were storming the Bastille in the thick of the French Revolution, blood dripping from their forehead. At issue, however, is hard...

I wish that…… elections in Iraq and Palestine bring stability in these countries and open fresh prospects for a tangible and lasting solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict....