Reforms are aimed at challenging and empowering one and all. Reform per se can be a daunting task at both the personal and collective level. It challenges our mindset, our theories and practices, ...

The Gonzi administration is looking more and more like a fishmonger’s stall – selling exclusively red herrings. The latest distraction from the serious business of ...

Much that is tiresome is being said about the rightness or wrongness of making Independence Day our one national day. ...

The summer break is over. It’s back to school and the start of any scholastic year is a fascinating experience: new teachers, new books, old and new friends and, in certain cases, it is also a new school. ...

Yes, the Nationalist government is going through a difficult period. The international recession that has affected our economy – jobs, tourism, industry, investment –...

Round and round we go. Creating more quangos when what we need is for the existing bodies to get on with it. The government is obviously bereft of ideas to garner public support, if the latest plan to employ a zone manager to improve t...

Watching Lawrence Gonzi being interviewed by Glenn Bedingfield about the chaos at Mater Dei during one of the Independence Day activities, I noticed that the Prime Minister seemed to be veering back and forth between two personalities....

This week we start with the plaudits. Antoine Cassar, former blogger and current poet has won the Grand Prize in the United Planet Writing Contest 2009. It’s a great achievement for the man who I got to know t...

In The Malta Independent of 11 September, Nationalist MP Robert Arrigo took a critical look at the Isle of MTV. It is good that, finally, somebody stepped forward on the subject of the return on investment question. ...

The choice that the British electorate have in nine months time is between a discredited, dishonest and failed government of 13 years and the largely untried and even unknown qualities of David Cameron’s Conservative Party....