The temptation does arise to consider that the attitude being adopted regarding the island’s actual economic situation against the background of the growing uncertaitnties that surround us,...

“Can you remind people exactly how many big significant interviews Liz Truss has done?”, Andrew Marr asked Andrew Neill. “I think that would be zero”, Neill curtly...

Around twenty years ago, the authority responsible for land use planning, then named MEPA, had published a Minerals Subject Plan for the Maltese Islands. The plan is dated May 2003. The...

It all boils down to impartiality. And why an examination of Magistrate Lia’s conduct is important to each and every one of us. A couple of weeks ago, this newspaper’s weekly sister...

So after 20 years the Hondoq ir-Rummien chapter is closed and all breathed a sigh of relief. I have been following and reporting on this saga right from the very beginning when we media were...

The total increase of the financial allocation for arts and culture for the year 2023 compared to the last budget of a PN administration (the budget for the year 2013) is a whopping 150%. The...

On the one hand, Budget 2023 follows a logic of relative stability, in the context of the various global crises through which Malta is navigating. On the other hand, the budget does not give...

In the modern governance of parliamentary democracies, regulatory agencies have been allocated a leading role. Once the idea that economic affairs should be run according to free trade principles...

In the Cold War satirical novel ‘The Mouse That Roared’, Count Rupert of Mountjoy, the Prime Minister of the European Duchy of Grand Fenwick (half the size of Gozo) declares war on the...

A Rumanian minister had to resign for having stated the belief that peace negotiations should bring the Ukraine war to an end. Other politicians in various countries were censored for having made...