The new leadership team of the PN has now been installed, mostly lawyers in their 40s. All coming from different backgrounds with a wide range of experience in different fields and committed to...

The Prime Minister declared that he will appoint his backbencher to the board rooms of parastatal corporations and authorities. Therefore, our MPs, especially from the Government side, will have to...

I spent 34 years of my working life mostly in London, and mostly in the Ministry of Defence. My name made it obvious I was Maltese. I was proud to be Maltese, and such was the affection for Malta from...

When I visited Budapest last week, one of the first stops was at the Hungarian Parliament building.   Two things struck me: the first is the splendour of the structure and the pride with...

I noticed that The Times yesterday interviewed a few prisoners who had been released early because of the amnesty celebrating the Labour victory, and their families. They were all hard-luck cases: a...

Ever since the election, a steady stream of mainly Labour supporters have moved in to occupy most posts in the ministries, the quangos, the agencies and anywhere else where the government holds sway...

Today the PN General Council meets again to bring to an end a process of change within the Party, kick-started in the aftermath of the last general election. Now that this phase has been concluded, we...

Having served on the Bioethics Consultative Committee for 15 years, and 10 years as its chairman, I would like to make some suggestions about its further development. One should keep in mind that...

When the PN lost the last election I, like many other Maltese people and especially like most of us who believed in the PN, reflected on the election result. I pondered all the reasons we had lost and...

Spare a thought for Bradley Manning, the brave, bespectacled US soldier who, three years after his arrest, has finally gone on trial over his disclosures to WikiLeaks. He is the victim of that...