Last Wednesday, I attended an extremely interesting lecture given by the EU Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta. The lecture...

After slipping and sliding away from what they clearly consider to be media intrusion into their plots and schemes to wrest a sinecure of hundreds of millions of euros a year for 30 years, from the...

The movement of history is not a linear one but one that develops in fits and starts. You can go for a long period and nothing happens and then everything happens all at once. Then there is a gear...

Malta’s climate offers up a small but essential feature of our daily life – running around in flip flops for around half of the year or more.  This little luxury has the effect of...

Traffic issues and an inefficient public transport could be the Labour government’s downfall, Salvu Mallia argues in his vlog today. Pointing fingers at Transport Minister Joe Mizzi, Mallia...

On 19 May 2015, Konrad Mizzi, as Minister for Energy and Health, issued a press release announcing the preferred bidders for the €200-million investment in our health system. Among the companies...

The newspapers carried a press release yesterday informing us that “Mrs Michelle Muscat, spouse of the Prime Minister, has visited Dubai as guest of HRH Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, spouse of...

The people I most admire in our society are those who mobilize against poverty. The cause arouses sympathy but leaves many of us cool, even as we agree about the need to roll poverty...

This is starting to get seriously silly by the day (no, sorry. by the minute)!  Until a couple of years ago Arriva topped the list and it was what we were all focused on. Before that it was...

The budget for 2017 has given us the opportunity to hold to account a government that has now been in office for almost four years and that should not keep treating politics as a game of spin....