As the country fast approaches the important day or reckoning on 3rd June it is important that voters reflect on the issues that will affect their day-to-day lives in the coming five years. They will...

On the 9th May, the US President Donald Trump sacked James Comey, the Head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Given our recent experience in Malta, where we have had no less than five...

The Opposition Leader has presented his thoughts for our pensions. After ignoring pensioners in the manifesto he wrote in 2013, this time he went for the big guns. He told us he would...

We are in the midst of a political campaign, which like all other campaigns enhances in a big way our parochial culture and one-track mindedness.  This year I am an outside observer of the two...

It is hard to imagine a more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. It is precisely what people ought to consider,...

To have an island that has been independent for more than 50 years and which is now exposed to financial gluttony at the highest level of government we have ever seen, reminds me of the book bearing...

Approximately two weeks ago, Joseph Muscat chose to (ab)use his prerogative and call for an early election probably in order to use a possible electoral victory in order to ablut himself and his...

After more than 50 months of continuous negative criticism, the least one would have expected from the Leader of the Opposition was to interest us with some concrete proposals...

Dear readers, as the tempo of the electoral campaign for the 3 June general election steps up, I would like to share with you the views of a Maltese woman living abroad. I vouch for the veracity of...

We’re now halfway through this electoral campaign and of all the campaigns I remember, this must rank as the strangest. First of all, why are we at it now, more than a year early? Early...