The debate on the vote of no-confidence in Austin Gatt held last Friday unwittingly turned the focus on the core issue that the country is facing right now – Lawrence Gonzi and his ineffective leadership...

Despite the relentless shift of global economic might to Asia, and China’s rise as a great power – the central historical events of our time, which will drive world affairs for the foreseeable future – America’s focus has been elsewhere...

Politics is about substance. It is not about speculation, but about what actually happens. It is a fact that this government in this term on a number of issues did not have the necessary majority...

He may not realise it yet, but Franco Debono is throwing his young and promising political career down the drain – if he has not done so already....

In the end, this Labour spin was buried by none less than a newer Labour spin, by the length of time a dysfunctional Public Accounts Committee took to get down to it, and not ...

The supposedly comprehensive solution negotiated at the EU / EURO summit on 26 October is a hopeless, useless, dangerous and patched-up fudge which offers no solution to the problem of the euro...

I have been checking the news to see whether Franco Debono has done the honourable thing and handed in his resignation as the Prime Minister’s parliamentary assistant. ...

Nine weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled Thinking the Unthinkable: The Break-up of the EU, in which I highlighted the way the euro, meant to unite Europe, seemed to be tearing it apart. ...

The recent events surrounding the controversial and unquestionably distasteful organisation of teen parties, without mentioning the attendant published imagery, has once ...

The first ever article I wrote for the then brand new Malta Independent on Sunday more than 20 years ago was about the crying need for cremation services on a small island ...