On Wednesday 11th January, I attended the funeral Mass of Dun Ġużepp Zammit at Bormla’s Collegiate Church. I came to know Dun Ġużepp towards the end of his life, as a veteran...

The tourism minister – ED ZL, as he wished to be known in one of his more playful moods on Facebook, before he was mocked to kingdom come – is in a very bitchy mood right now. And Robert...

A week or so after Simon Busuttil was elected as Leader of the Nationalist Party I wrote that “the better man lost” but said that Dr Busuttil being ­— in my opinion — less...

The linear model of our economy follows a take-make-use-waste path as a result of which we extract resources from the earth which we use and subsequently throw away. In contrast to this...

Discussions taking place around the EU Presidency which include immigration on the agenda, are rather like the froth over a cold beer, failing to deal with the reality taking place on the shores of...

Nationalist Party candidate Salvu Mallia today criticises the rush to have high-rise buildings all over Malta which, he said, are making the country ugly. At a time when Malta is trying to...

Perhaps it is because I was brought up to appreciate the struggles of a disabled person that, today, I feel angry at the insulting behaviour of the Labour MP Luciano Busuttil and his wife. I'm hardly...

Pretty much in the same vein that the widow in the 1999 James Dalessandro book, “Citizen Jane” sought to find the truth about her aunt’s gruesome murder, so are the citizens  of...

Life in Malta has turned into something of a black comedy. The government and its cronies are finding ever more creative ways to be corrupt and abusive, to freeload off the system, and at times it...

The pro-free trade consensus that spread worldwide provided the basis for globalisation to accelerate. Developments in communciations technologies for travel and by way of transmitting messages to all...