I recently met a dear old friend who I hadn’t seen for a very long time. After the usual niceties we got down to the issues which concern him most. The first thing he mentioned was how personal...

Michael Falzon’s irate tirade against the Auditor-General, his office and those who work for it was unedifying – but worse than that, it was dangerous to democracy. This might not be...

I feel some discomfort when I listen to talk about the “opportunities” that Brexit could offer. The truth is that the exit of the UK from the European Union is going to be a diplomatic and...

Education Minister Evarist Bartolo was perfectly correct when he said that there is a law for the gods and a law for animals. And there seems to be no difference between the parties in the way...

I think what we have been witnessing in these last couple of years is to say the least frightening, terrifying and scary.  The term, ‘ma tista’ tmur imkien’ (you...

Last Wednesday I was having a night out with some friends.  All was going well until my mobile, in an attempt to spoil the evening, intervened.  A friend on the other end of the line broke...

Journeying by train recently, I was again impressed by the number of energy windmills spread across the European countryside. You see them grouped in sixes or more, like watchers over the fields and...

The quashed coup in Turkey yesterday is being put across in the media as a bad thing that would have posed a major threat to democracy. In reality, it is the opposite of that. The Turkish Constitution...

We have had a surfeit of international scare stories this week, each with its internal dynamics. While being very serious threats, they must not distract us from focusing on what is really happening...

US Investment Bank Goldman Sachs announced last week that it had “hired” former EU Commission Chairman Josè Manuel Barroso as an adviser and non-executive chairman of the Goldman...