This article has been prompted by three items of news that appeared in the media last week. Centre stage was held by the visa scandal, which was uncovered by The Malta Independent. There is no...

So is Sai Mizzi Liang coming back home to Malta and her husband the corrupt Cabinet Minister, now that her crony-contract with his government has lapsed, and a new consul appointed in Shanghai? Or is...

For four years in the 1990s, Manoel Island formed part of my ‘kingdom’ – that being the parish of Gzira. Manoel Island, a gzira, gives its name to the entire parish and locality...

During the past weeks, the island of Comino has been in the news. The controversy surrounding the deckchair/umbrella hawkers free-for-all at the Blue Lagoon focused on overcharging, breaching of...

Whenever Independence Day comes along we are reminded of our political convictions. Some may wonder whether they have them or not, whether they are still relevant and if we are currently...

Do you remember Sai Mizzi’s only press conference? The one she gave with Joseph Muscat? They had just announced an investment which should have made a significant difference to our economy....

The propaganda machine at the Office of the Prime Minister has begun to feed a new form into social media manipulation. Like its most successful ones when the Labour Party was in Opposition, this one...

Leo Brincat’s hearing this week before the budgetary control committee of the European Parliament had an interest that went beyond the theatrical setting of the occasion and the polemics about...

Many a times, academics have been accused of huddling up in the comfort and security of their Ivory Tower, completely detached and alienated from what is happening around them.  This cannot be...

The Labour Party is dying to pick a fight with the Church. To be more accurate, it is dying to provoke Archbishop Charles Scicluna into retaliating to the heavy accusations Labour exponents are...