A week ago, I reported that I had asked a spokesperson for Commissioner Ulli Rehn whether the government of Malta had done what it was meant to do by 1 October.   The reply, in quite testy...

Before I start on today’s subject, I need to make a correction that appeared as a misprint in last week’s article, as it changed the whole meaning of the sentence. Whereas what went into...

The best piece of advice I ever read concerning politicians still reeling from the shock of a massive defeat and in the inevitable process of reinventing themselves and their parties came from Denis...

I sometimes despair of Malta’s Archbishop. Archbishop Paul Cremona is an intrinsically good man. But he has not a single political fibre in his body – an essential quality for any senior...

When a ship loaded with 30 tons of cannabis caught fire while sailing some 30 miles off Malta a couple of weeks ago, some joked that the prevailing wind brought the ‘smoke’ to our islands...

Readers were predictably devastated by the news of another unnecessary death of a 15-year-old girl. We continue to hear about unthinkable tragedies like this time and again and yet nothing is done...

The first of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) negotiations took place from 8 July to 12 July in Washington DC, which was led by the Office of the United States Trade...

In our electoral manifesto we promised to invest in the productive sectors that will bring about economic growth, generate work and create employment opportunities.  We also committed ourselves...

There are times when we have to hope that our sense of the ridiculous does not desert us. Take yesterday, for example, when the Labour Party released the news that “DJ Clint Bajada” has...

“To promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom”. This is one of the four objectives of  the Charter of the United Nations signed on 26 June 1945 at San...