Malta is set to be the first country in the whole European Union where a person at the age of sixteen has the possibility to not only vote and stand for Local Council election, but also, if he or she...

For those who like I do, remember the launching of Air Malta and how during its first years of existence the project was run courageously and prudently, the company’s demise – long...

Populism is again gaining support in Europe and this goes beyond the increase in right wing govenrments that has taken place recently. Even so, I doubt whether populist parties will do any better at...

Justice has many facets. It can take the guise of reasonableness, proportionality, equity, equality, and other features. One of those characteristics less known and less discussed in legal literature...

Pierre Fenech, Labour’s ITS CEO, is notorious. He’s the “Pierre ITS” who Rosianne Cutajar resorted to when she wanted a phantom job to pig out like all the rest. He’s the...

In the past few days, government, once more, through various Ministers, has sought to normalise clientelism. Each Ministry, nowadays, has a fully staffed office that is described as a “customer...

Monday’s press conference by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance on the end of Air Malta aimed mainly to mask the refusal by the EU to allow further State aid, the substantial...

Amongst the many initiatives introduced by the Ministry for National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government over the past years, one of the most popular is surely the Local Council restoration...

Most of the time we justifiably complain about bureaucracy. By which we mean excessive bureaucracy... But what makes it excessive? The problem is that the state (as well as the private sector)...

I have a mental health issue. I am Bipolar II. Bipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depressive illness or manic depression) is a mental illness that causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood,...