If the Nationalist Party does not come down hard on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, Franco Debono and Jesmond Mugliett, the electorate will come down hard on the Nationalist Party....

Standing beneath the looming presence of Martin Luther King Jr., President Barack Obama carved out his own version of black leadership with a message of racial unity...

We do not usually give emergency contraception, or the ‘morning after pill’, in Malta since it has been frowned upon as possibly being abortifacient if an egg has been fertilised, and therefore governments have always refused its importation...

I left Iran early last time. Not because I wanted to, but because I couldn’t breathe. It was mid-December 1999, and the air was heavy with a thick black smog...

Populist or not in his presentation style, Joe Azzopardi – now self-styled as Peppi – has undoubtedly strong communication skills...

Is the eurozone stepping back from the brink? This might just be possible, because the emerging outlines of a new framework to resolve the ongoing sovereign-debt crisis contain a key component that was missing so far...

The government must be thinking that the national airline is a playground for selective confidentiality...

Last Monday’s testimony in court and the confrontation between JPO and Daphne (in a case that had nothing to do with the subject of the acrimony) brought back memories but also distortions about that now-rather-distant March 2008....

This missive comes to you from the fair city of Frankfurt. I’m here with a troop of Maltese expats to visit the International Book Fair that is being held over the weekend. Last night was mostly...

I was talking on the telephone yesterday with a Maltese person who lives in London. He said how surreal it is when, in an environment where people are worried about their jobs, people are losing their jobs, ...