There is a word that clearly expresses the political situation in Malta at the moment and this is qualunquismo. Qualunquismo appeared in Italy, after the Second World War, in reaction to Fascism and...

These past eight weeks have been like a daily soap opera, except that the experience has been depressing not entertaining. One episode more surreal than another, with a cliff hanger at the end of each...

The Prime Minister’s chief of staff and his favoured cabinet minister both issued statements today, once more protesting their innocence in the aftermath of an article published yesterday...

During official discussions at the European Parliament, it is being said that the financial package for Greece hammered out in the middle of last year is making progress. The Greek government...

I've heard it so many times that our society is passive, disinterested and its citizens are disengaged.  This cannot be further from the truth. I think this country should be proud of its civic...

I am writing at a corner table in one of the coffee shops at the Malta International Airport.  People are restless, pacing to and fro the departure and the arrival lounges.  It’s...

Nexia BT is once again in the news for the wrong reasons. It was mentioned in John Bundy’s programme on RTK Radio by the veteran journalists Godfrey Grima and Frank Portelli. They spoke about...

If someone says he has an internal conflict, he cannot be serene and happy. So there was some contradiction in what Konrad Mizzi said last Thursday. What is sure is that this scandal that...

I still need to understand the logic of the protests that the Opposition organized about the defamation case raised in court with respect to Dr Jason Azzopardi. What was the issue: that it was...

Louis Grech told the Labour Party’s annual general meeting on Friday that the party survives because it is always conscious of the changing mood. Let’s leave aside the fact that this...