Government and the Opposition have in tandem turned the parliamentary appointment procedure of the second Commissioner for Standards in Public Life into a farce. First, they both engaged in...

My take on the Valenzia Inquiry recommendations to beef up the court resources related to domestic violence (DV) cases is to create a pool of court attorneys to assist the respective magistrates....

Last month – on Monday 27 February to be precise – the highest court of the land, the Constitutional Court, delivered a decision with far-reaching implications: Partit Nazzjonalista v....

“We are naturally vitally interested in the sea which surrounds us and through which we live and breathe.” This was stated by Arvid Pardo then Malta’s UN Ambassador when addressing...

“This is the most anti-socialist act one can commit”.  Labour Gzira Mayor Conrad Borg Marche openly accused his own party of betraying the most fundamental socialist...

This week we celebrated two very different anniversaries. On Tuesday we commemorated the 20 years since the people of this country chose to enter the European Union over the dire predictions of Alfred...

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in...

It seems like there are two perfectly legitimate dates at which spring is reckoned to start: the 21st of March, as I was always taught; and the first day of the same month. There are good reasons to...

Last Sunday the Nationalist Party held its second protest following a court judgement to annul the public-private deal on 3 hospitals in Malta, which, to date, had cost well over €300 million...

Governments easily fall for the temptation of boasting how they’re doing everything right. They find themselves under attack on all fronts and “naturally” react by claiming that the...