One hundred days is but a small fraction of the 1,800 plus in a legislature as long as ours. But it is common practice to analyse what the government has done in this short space of time and use it as...

The end result of the report by the specially-commissioned committee into the reasons for the PN defeat is not worth the time spent in its compilation or the illustrious names which subscribed to...

Weirdly, I just could not find anything to get my teeth into this week. It is not that there was not much news, it was finding something that challenged my brain cells in the sense of questioning and...

Faced with the public’s reaction to his decision to grant a 100-day amnesty to inmates at the Cordin Correctional Facility, the Home Affairs and National Security Minister sought refuge behind...

When I found the above quotation I spent some minutes thinking about what the writer wanted to say. I settled for the interpretation that both are immanent and everywhere evident but always often...

It is perhaps only in Malta that the arrival of a unique and beautiful flamingo is something to be celebrated and dreaded in almost equal measure; celebrated because such a bird is a wonderful...

Turkey’s journey towards EU membership has been long, and showed few signs of reaching its termination even prior to the Occupy Gezi movement and the Turkish government’s reaction. Turkey...

A BBC documentary series about life in the pre-1989 Communist bloc states of Europe was particularly memorable for the ‘peeping Tom’ film footage of some very ordinary couplings in some...

The welcome determination of the government to enact legislation for the introduction of civil unions in Malta is a long over-due step in publicly accepting stable, same-sex relationships. Civil...

The controversy surrounding the health service was touched upon once again by the Health Minister in an interview in another section of the media earlier this week. The Minister, egged on by the...