A strange thought struck me this week when no one at tal-gazzetti seemed to be talking about early elections and political crises. It seems that over the last few days people have shifted their attention to other things. ...

In the recent Debono debacle, the Labour party lost a golden opportunity. With only at most a year to go before the next general election, th...

It is not only this government that lists education as one of its top and foremost priorities, as various Nationalist governments over the years have been consistent...

There was a time when the Labour Party’s reluctance to say what it planned to do if and when it was elected to government was understandable, at least in part. The election was far away, the party was still finding ...

The 10th anniversary of the euro’s launch was marked only a month ago. When the euro became a hard currency in 2002, it was a hugely complex multi-national achievement that went more ...

I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to speak about Franco Debono and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando again, and I’m also going to have to drag in that Joseph Muscat....

This week marks the start of the British monarch’s five-month Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Five months of official and national events that Great Britain hopes will mark Queen Elisabeth’s...

A neutral observer of the Maltese political scene is so often left perplexed by the contradictions, the ironies and the pastiche that he or she is bound to give up with a ...

The Obama administration's new mandate that religious organizations pay for their workers' birth control has become a bludgeon for Republican culture warriors, as social issues have surged to the forefront in the presidential campaign...

A few weeks back, I wrote on the possibility of further EU sanctions on Iran due to the government's noncompliance with the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) demands for information regarding its nuclear programme...