Reflecting about current happenings in the Ukraine places one face to face with the realization that a decision to invade, attack, declare war against another country is a truly radical one. It is...

A few days ago, I was one of the guest speakers in a conference organised by the Ministry in the Office of the Prime Minister in collaboration with the Media Literacy Board on the value of...

No election campaign can be mounted in the absence of rhetoric. This gets built around phrases and slogans that frame appeals and proposals of all kinds. A good part of it would be exagerrated and...

The Department of Information issued a press release. It communicated urgent important information - Minister Evarist Bartolo had a telephone conversation with US Assistant Secretary of State Karen...

Do we really need surveys?  The idea of a democracy is to allow the people to exercise their sovereignty, since the basic concept is that in a democracy the people are sovereign. It’s true...

Everything is the same as in 2017. And everything is different. On 1 May 2017 Joseph Muscat called Labour supporters out on a show of force to swamp the Egrant allegations which involved his wife...

Robert Abela and the Labour campaign are in crisis.  The pledges and initiatives announced since the election date was made public amount to nothing more than dishing out even more cheques and...

There is an undisputed realization in this country that you cannot separate the quest for a better quality of life from that of a better environment and more green policies. If the electorate...

For quite a while, Malta has been accused of allowing its financial services to be used as a tool by which corporations and rich people get to evade their tax dues. It is still claimed that an...

One of my favourite books which I read and reread often is ‘In Retrospect’ where US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara reflects on the tragedy of Vietnam and lessons learned from it. He...