You wouldn’t believe it but business was better in Malta during the worst of the economic crises than it is in the current year....

Above the hoardings at City Gate, the pillars for the new Parliament building (otherwise called ‘the stilts’ by wags) are visible. To them have now been added huge steel beams....

Every year, when the MATSEC results come out, we hear the government and the Opposition giving us their respective interpretations – each quoting selectively from the statistics...

This time last year, the Labour leader was out of action and his wife, who has no party role or Constitutional role but appears not to know it, got into a power-tussle ...

Papillon is the name of a 1969 novel written by Frenchman Henri Charrière. The (allegedly) autobiographical novel tells of Charrière’s extraordinary saga at the hands ...

On Saturday 23 July, the notes of Carl Orff’s O Fortuna from his famous Carmina Burana brought the 2011 edition of the Malta Arts Festival to a close. A spectacular end for a Festival that was singled out by the 26 June edition of the UK Sunday Times...

Those who think foreign policy is all about values must be either detached from reality or else true romantics. Or idealists....

A recent newspaper report (The Malta Independent on Sunday) estimated that 78 per cent of Fourth and Fifth Formers attend private lessons. This figure approximates...

The riots at the Safi Detention Centre on 16th August have again shone a spotlight on the value and efficacy of Malta’s detention policy. Tear gas was used to quell the riot. ...

The Nationalist Party is trying to lay a trap for the Labour Party. But the PL has so far resisted the temptation to play along. It does not want to repeat what it did in the previous term...