One of the news items in the BBC World News, on Thursday, 19th November, was the fact that the younger generation in the UK is no longer guaranteed to be better off than their parents.  The...

The present crisis in Europe should not be underestimated. In the areas of security and immigration, huge cracks have emerged in the ways by which decisions are being taken at a European level, as...

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has come and gone, and the enduring image - fatefully - will be that of our head of state wearing the beautiful pea-green boat in which the Owl and the...

We do not usually think of the euro in the same way that we think of Schengen but, in fact, they both have a common parent: the decision, taken long ago, to open up Europe and to beget a single market...

Next week’s Paris Climate Change meeting is the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) relative to the UN Framework on Climate Change, a framework treaty signed in Rio de Janeiro at the 1992 Rio...

I wonder if it is also happening to many others, but I have, in recent weeks, found myself applauding Vladimir Putin for stealing a march on the rest of the world by going full blast against the...

Sitting in parliament on Tuesday I could feel the moment demanded gravitas. I would say all went well. Almost. This was, after all, a historic event. The House was being addressed by the...

I bet that you will not find anything similar to what passes for political narrative in Malta. In all the other countries I can think of, political discussion goes on, as it does here, without...

As my regular readers will vouch, I have always been a firm believer in the bilingual aptitude of the vast majority of Maltese. There is absolutely nothing new in it, however. For centuries under the...

Our waste can be put to good use, which is why we are encouraged to separate and recycle what we would otherwise throw away. Our waste contains plenty of useful resources that can be recovered and...