If there is one area in which this administration has failed most spectacularly, it is definitely the environment. From billboards declaring that the environment would become a priority, we have seen...

In 1995, Umberto Eco published one of his masterpieces: Eternal fascism - 14 ways of looking at a Blackshirt. Eco lived through Mussolini’s dark years.  He tasted the bitterness of fascism....

We live in a time of contrasting numbers. On the one hand the coming European Parliament election will offer a snapshot of sorts of our country. On the other hand we have been offered the latest...

Even if one is not fanatically pro how the EU and its Parliament operate (which I surely am not), after having participated in the latter institution for a while, one still experiences the end of a...

Are the Maltese a people of conformists? That was the rather strange question that a friend whom I had not seen for many years during most of which he had been away, asked me. Before he left he did...

Notwithstanding the increasing numbers of incoming tourists, the tourism industry is currently in a self-destructive mode.  After the carrying capacity study published by the Malta Hotels and...

In July 2023, the Nationalist Party (PN) led the Labour Party (PL) in three regions, marking a significant shift in regional support. PN had taken the lead in Gozo by four points, enjoying a...

A dark cloud of creeping authoritarianism hangs over Malta. Labour won three landslide election victories on the trot. It’s now heading for another at the European elections. That absolute...

In May of last year, Malta dropped six places in the World Press Freedom Index, making it the worst-ever ranking. We had a public inquiry into the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia...

Five years ago I happened to write an article which was moderately critical of the European Parliament and of the EU in general. To my great astonishment I was blasted by a person I hardly knew...