How about this? In the weeks before the 2008 general election, Mepa became one huge sticky point for the government in office...

PIGS is not pigs. It is the new acronym coined by the financial services industry to group together the four euro area countries that are struggling ...

The island is agog with the alleged shenanigans of a member of the bench and friends of friends across the partisan divide through a blog. What the last week...

We read daily that the two main parties are busy re-organising themselves. Both accuse each other – in Malta the verb is always to accuse...

I do not normally make New Year’s resolutions. I do not need to wait for the start of January to take a decision. When I wanted to quit smoking, ...

I’ve been reading a lot of fiction in Maltese lately and, while leafing through the pages, it occurred to me that it is these writers who are really telling the story of our contemporary political history....

We all know that, in a professional army, the best people are chosen to be officers. People who demonstrate officer material eventually are ...

Around the year 1260, the Bishop of Genoa, Jacopus de Varagine, compiled a book called the Legenda Aurea (The Golden Legend)....

Culture is an integral part of every society. Social scientists use the term to infer people’s whole way of life; ...

Our islands have, over the years, produced personalities such as Arvid Pardo and Prof. David Attard, well known for their work on the...