It is a rhetorical question.  We prefer the comfort of our small cocoon.  Locally, last week all eyes and ears were focused on the resignation of former parliamentary secretary, Dr Michael...

If someone has not yet made a quick search on the Internet for the definition of “Orpheum”, the result he or she would obtain is that it is one of the most popular names used for theatres...

Most comments regarding the Auditor General’s devastating report about the lands department concentrated on topics related to governance. However there is another matter, perhaps equally...

The moniker King of Lands passed into popular parlance some months ago when Michael Falzon’s questionable ‘customer care officer’, Clint Scerri, used it to describe himself on...

There was a haunted look on the Prime Minister's face as he allowed Michael Falzon next to him to cast doubts on the Auditor's report on the basis of which Dr Falzon had resigned. There was the...

I couldn't help remembering a G.K. Chesterton quote as I watched the small gathering of Maltese "patriots" waving the national flag and eating ham sandwiches at Msida the other day. It goes: "My...

The day that a political party would have really made changes to Malta is that day when we start to not care about politics.   Corruption, scandal, resignations, rivalries, lies, libels,...

Another week, another scandal. Another resignation. I write this column every week and, each time, I find myself asking, “How low can this government go?” Well, looks like...

The current news is the resignation of Michael Falzon from parliamentary secretary following the Gaffarena scandal. I will be taking up this story in my next blog, as events are still unfolding, since...

For a lawyer to demand that a journalist reveals the source behind the publication of a story is obscene. For this lawyer to demand such an obscenity when representing a Labour government minister in...