Revolving-door recruitment into the public sector is one of the most effective lobbying tools. In lobbying terminology, revolving-door recruitment signifies the employment of a person directly from a...

There was once a man, a foreign man, who was gifted a few millions from our national coffers. Because he criticised Malta, the whole country rose up in arms to attack him. To, had he still been here,...

Let us try to analyze the Robert Abela structure of power.  It is not the parliamentary group, nor the upper reaches of the party. It is a largely unstructured core, brought together and...

An allegiance is a duty of fidelity said to be owed, or freely committed, by the people, subjects, or citizens to their state or sovereign. When reading law, I learned a fundamental principle that...

The Wall Street Journal recommended 10 unique destinations for 2025. Malta is one of them. In a nutshell, the Wall Street Journal, considered to be the largest newspaper in the United States of...

The populism which is spreading across the political scene of the West carries a fundamental contradiction. On the one hand, it is clearly reaping the support of ever widening strata of the working...

It had long been coming and was even promised in Labour's 2022 general election electoral manifesto. In November 2022, Prime Minister Robert Abela publicly committed himself to the idea that a debate...

The comment made recently by Donald Trump about how he would be ready as US President to again take control of the Panama canal served as a reminder of how the name of this country is linked to wider...

Fort Chambray in Għajnsielem, overlooking Mgarr Harbour, Gozo embodies centuries of resilience, culture, and identity. The Order of St John built the fort in the mid-18th century as a bastion of...

In the morning Robert Abela was philosophising to his adoring public: "National unity remains the foundation of everything". By the evening he was inciting the masses, fomenting division and warning...