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...

Europe seems to be obsessed with austerity. Country after country is being forced by either the financial markets or the European Union to start cutting its public-sector deficit. And, as if this were not enough, 25 of the 27 EU member ...

Over the past two weeks, the comment I passed on the slow puncture did its rounds all over Malta. The comment was linked to a possible vote of abstention in Parliament, as in fact happened...

Lately we have been hearing the term ‘national interest’ too often. It is being used and misused in order to send the message that Malta’s national interest is best served by the PN. ...

It is more than a little bit trying to see the Labour Party hop aboard yet another vote-catching bandwagon instead of trying to tackle matters responsibly. I’m speaking of the issue-flavour of the month...

In 1985, Xi Jinping led a delegation to Muscatine, Iowa, to study advanced hog-raising techniques. He will return to the same place next week, preparing to lead the world’s most populous nation...