It is interesting how a snap election campaign found the two major parties ready with their promises. I guess we’ll be learning about more of them in the remaining couple of weeks. What...

In the current political climate, I find that it is indeed our duty as academics and especially in my role as Dean of a Faculty (for Social Wellbeing) to appeal to decency and decorum as we go about...

Alternattiva Demokratika chairman speaks about the crisis which led to an early election and why his party did not accept to form part of a coalition as proposed by the Nationalist Party....

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat chose a very unfortunate phrase in the Labour Party’s first mass meeting of the election campaign in Zabbar on Sunday....

While preparing to pen this piece, I thoughtwhich issues merit thorough reflection now that the electoral campaign is gearingup.  I concluded that good governance deserves detailed consideration....

Well, of course you have to have reached a certain age to remember them and, more precisely, to have experienced them, but the similarities in circumstances – both social and political –...

What I found surprising during the last weeks, was the hysterical style adopted by the Nationalist Opposition. True, they were making extremely serious allegations against the government. But surely...

On Saturday, the people of Tarxien, together with many residents of the fourth electoral district, paid their last respects to the honourable Joe Cassar, known as Peppinu, the name by which he was...

The first five days of the electoral campaign are a good indicator of what is to come, bar the ever-present possibility of a tactical bomb detonating on either side of the barricades. Interestingly,...