The current industrial dispute between the management of the national carrier Air Malta and the Airline Pilots Association, ALPA, is not a storm in a teacup.  Air Malta filed an injunction...

No satisfactory reply has been given regarding whether the leading banks are taking advantage of the prevailing financial situation when greatly pulling down the interest they pay on funds lent to...

The situation in Turkey is now far worse than anybody could have foreseen, and this just a week after the failed coup d’état. Though I do not concur with the widely touted notion that...

Friday’s rampage and massacre outside the Munich shopping centre reminded us all of the dangerous times we are living in. That area in Munich is very near to the Olympic village where...

There are conflicting views on the acceptability, or otherwise, of the operations of the Freeport Terminal at Kalafrana, limits of Birżebbuġa. Throughout the years, governments have...

If one is honest there is no denying that the multi-themed issue of illegal immigration, refugees and terrorism has one in quite a quandary. Of course there are those who stand strictly on the Right...

As the triumvirate of Keith, Konrad and Joseph get ready with their tent and lights to present a media event to deflect attention from the non-event of the power station onto the grievances of the...

In the last few years, academics (both local and foreign) chastised the Catholic Church in Malta for fomenting, according to them, racial hatred against the Ottomans and the Arabs. In some cases,...

I recently met a dear old friend who I hadn’t seen for a very long time. After the usual niceties we got down to the issues which concern him most. The first thing he mentioned was how personal...

Michael Falzon’s irate tirade against the Auditor-General, his office and those who work for it was unedifying – but worse than that, it was dangerous to democracy. This might not be...