So the laws against pornography, blasphemy and the vilification of “the Roman Catholic Church and other cults recognised by law” are to be repealed. And not before time: they were already...

It was interesting this week in Strasbourg to observe the reaction of European parliamentarians and others to the referendum results in Greece. Many seemed stunned and unable to understand what...

There is no greater love than that of a parent.  Don’t we all know this?  People who are fortunate enough to be parents and were handed this privilege know well-enough that they would...

At different junctures over the years, pensioners have received the short end of the stick.  Although a minimal number of classes of pensioners were granted a revision, however piteous, in the...

I have mixed feelings regarding the manner both the Government and the Opposition have been discussing and looking at the Greek crisis. On the one hand, I cannot but agree with the way, Finance...

The results of the Tsipras referendum need to be assessed in a way that brings out clearly the meaning of the choices which the Greek people – as well as the peoples of the European Union...

After I wrote my column for The Malta Independent last Thursday, in which I joined the chorus of condemnation of what was done to Daboma Jack, I set to thinking about it a little more and realised...

I passed by the Greek Embassy in Ta’ Xbiex yesterday and I saw no crowd of Maltese patriots shouting outside “Give us back our €89 million”. But a few miles away, in...

Legislation regulating the financing of political parties in Malta is long overdue. Alternattiva Demokratika has been harping on about this subject since its foundation in 1989 and has referred to it...

I run the risk of being upstaged by events by the time this piece appears, but the socio-political drama that continues to unfold in Greece and the economic luna park it has all developed into can...