The Israeli government has called a general election for 22 January and polls suggest Benjamin Netanyahu's rightist-religious coalition is likely to win a renewed majority. But an array of wild cards make the outcome of this campaign unpredictable....

Politics and political life is ascribed a lot of adjectives from time to time. For sure, what is happening at the moment – and also what happened in the last two years in particular – can be described as anything but boring. ...

One of the things I have noticed in the fall-out from John Dalli’s forced resignation is that lots of people can’t distinguish between a crime and a sacking offence or resignation matter. They also seem to believe that Malta’s ...

Time certainly does fly. The past four-and-a-half years have seen me meeting and having discussions with a great number of people. ...

Back in the 1960s, Jeremy Boissevain carried out a study in the small village of Kirkop. It was an influential work that shed light on many aspects of life in a rural Maltese village ...

The Embryo Protection Bill currently before Parliament states that not more than two human eggs (or ova) should be fertilised in a glass dish in any one-treatment cycle. Since ...

A new Act, shortly to be presented to parliament, will provide for the recognition of youth work as a profession. ...

Dear Austin,I hear the quip about the bendy buses during my resounding speech to the Conservative Part...

As an independent commentator on the Maltese scene, I am not in the business of scoring political points or wearing my political views on my sleeve. My task is to provide informed and ...

I think we made a bigger fuss than we should have on the nomination of Valletta as the European Capital of Culture in 2018...