Nearly a year has passed since Cyprus called on to the European Union for help.  Precisely speaking, it was on the 25 June 2012.  From then on we saw the Cypriot crisis come to the fore and...

Many in the gay community have castigated me for failing to recommend the immediate introduction of same-sex marriage in Malta in my report, “Same Sex: Same Civil Entitlements”. As the...

The first hundred days of newly elected governments are considered by political analysts and commentators to be a mirror image of the remaining term of the legislature. Soon enough the first hundred...

Here we go again, with the first shoots of diehard old Labour paranoia sprouting already among the Chief Fossils in Muscat’s Cabinet of curiosities. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,...

All governments surround themselves with people they trust or who share their policies and ideas. This is especially so in sensitive positions.   Policies and ideas have to be implemented,...

Darleen, the person at the centre of the current issue regarding President George Abela and the Community Chest Fund, is a sweet, soft-spoken girl.   I had occasion to meet her at the...

The recent rather clumsy intervention in Parliament by Foreign Minister George Vella on the need to “control” the media in Malta has highlighted again the imperative necessity for the...

There is only one way in which Dr George Vella’s speech in Parliament on 15 May can be interpreted. Having heard that speech, and having considered the obligation of each Member of Parliament...

My scribbling colleague at l-orizzont, John Agius, who is now responsible for the paper’s highly-informative weekly parliamentary double page, last week gently posed a series of searching...

This week was packed with topics and issues that could have formed the basis of an interesting commentary. We had a number of social issues and political controversies were not lacking, not least that...