I watched most of the European Parliament sitting on Tuesday, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the dock facing an enraged Parliament with smirks, winks and comments with his immediate...

The drummer was floored. A photo on the social media depicted a drum departing from the hands of a uniformed policeman and flying in the direction of the floored drummer. Last Thursday's protest...

The 2013 elections held in Malta on Saturday 9th March gave the Labour Party a majority of seats over the Nationalist Party, which had been in power since 1987, save for a short period of less than...

In Malta we are accustomed to political strife that sometimes triggers harsh acts and speeches which generate contempt and antagonism towards each other between people and groups of people. For some...

I recall with nostalgia the times my uncles, aunts and our family, would meet up in front of my parents' house and a corteo of some four or five cars would head out on an early Sunday morning to...

The strands that make up Malta are twisted this way and that especially in mid-summer. There is, as Italian television never stops reminding us, the migrants' crisis with Italian coastguard ship...

When Police Constable Simon Schembri from the Police Traffic Section took to the witness stand earlier this week, his thoroughly descriptive testimony was shocking. It described in considerable detail...

I have a lot of sympathy for Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour leader, as he keeps being accused of anti-Semitism in the current campaign being waged against him by the right-wing tabloids. When the...

Pilatus Bank Holdings are feeling the pinch.  They are very unhappy at having to pay out for a caretaker to administer the bank for them and have tried to curb the expense by asking the courts to...

The prime minister quite obviously thinks that the most suitable attitude to adopt, as his government is mired in a slew of bad news concerning its roadmap, is a positive one. Never has he...