I'm not a big football fan, in fact I'm not even a little bit fond of the sport, but last Monday, thanks to the Malta vs Italy World Cup Qualifier, my love for the game multiplied a thousand...

The fear of history repeating itself forced me to re-read the story of Germany between 1928 and 1933. By 1928, Germany was recovering well from the shattering experience of the First World War and the...

A former senior police officer, ex-Assistant Commissioner Michael Cassar, was in the news recently in connection with the case instituted by the Prime Minister against the Opposition Leader following...

Throughout the legislature of the Nationalist Government, so much negative propaganda was thrown by the opposition (and from its own backbenches) at any legislations, projects, initiatives and...

You have to hand it to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. He is a pro at covering incompetence, creating excuses and spinning his storylines. When the electoral campaign kicked off in January 2013,...

Kevin Bonello, the President of the Malta Union of Teachers recently referred to the religious curriculum in our schools. This was not a casual reference and a section of the press used it to fire its...

The prime minister quite obviously thinks that the most suitable attitude to adopt, as his government is mired in a slew of bad news concerning its roadmap, is a positive one. Never has he...

Rightly or wrongly, people pass judgment on others by using different yard sticks. Political parties are continuously under scrutiny and are even put to the test from time to time.  Judgements...

It was not a surprise to me that the government has failed to deliver on its pre-election promise that Malta would have a new gas-fired power station up and running by March 2015. I am not an...

In these past weeks, we had the Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and the Leader of the Opposition, Dr Simon Busuttil, giving us two diverse opinions on our economy. The Malta Independent reported the...