In December 2014, The National Audit Office published an unprecedented a report entitled, "Report by the Auditor General on the workings of Local Government". The 294 page document examines local...

Recently, the reality overseas seems to be that bloggers of whichever socio-political inclination often find themselves in court to face libel charges as the orbiting Internet planet comes under...

Today we celebrate Valentine's day.  A day for commitments, desires and love.  Political parties are hardly our dream lover but I wonder if it’s time to see if we have fallen out of...

Give a man some power and you’ll find out what he’s really like. Never mind all the sweet talk that came before. The recent court ruling in favour of two additional parliamentary seats for...

Last Tuesday, the Catholic Church in Malta celebrated the feast of St. Paul’s shipwreck in Malta. What few realize is that it only  became a national feast day in the nineteenth century. It...

(1)        Transport Minister Joe Mizzi has said that there might be a garden in the ditch (if he finds the money, presumably from the €6 million carnival...

For some strange reason ‘alcohol stories’ in the media don’t seem to hold water.  It might be that the fact that we subsist in a society that is always busy organizing...

Most of the news items during the past days were much like a ride on a roller-coaster, with more sheer drops than straight ups, and unexpected twists and sharp turns. The gruesome death of the...

Last Sunday, Joseph Muscat said that the Labour Party always respected democracy. Well, maybe he should be reminded of what happened in the 1981 election, but given that in the same speech he...