I was hardly impressed by the Nationalist Opposition’s critique of the 2016 budget and of the present economic direction. It is clear that when the economy is on a roll, as is happening now in...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat must have been very irked by the well-measured and genuine reply to the budget given by Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil on Monday. In his address on Tuesday, Joseph...

When still a little boy going to confession made me feel very much like the prodigal son; lost with a need to be found, forever made to think I have sinned and in need of indulgence because of my...

The 1985 Dire Straits rock song ‘So far away’ has eloquent lyrics. “You’re so far away from me I just can’t see” is a growing feeling amongst various categories in...

On Friday, 9 October, I was invited by Ivan Grech Mintoff to be a guest on his programme Exodus on F-Living. He wanted to discuss the current government’s policy on sexual education. It resulted...

One can consider the way by which people come to terms with the budget as a process spread over three movements. In a first wave, the budget is published and subjected to the open scrutiny of the...

The cheating mentality is so endemic in Malta that there are many people who actually do not understand that some things are not an "u ejja" matter and there is a still price to pay. Take the...

There is, I believe, a very wide constituency out there not for any grand ideal but for simply making things work as they should work (but do not). I think that, as a nation, we have gone through...

The Budget acknowledges that traffic is a problem; unfortunately, it fails to present a vision for the future, as Transport Malta has yet to carry out a consultation exercise. Acknowledging that...

In this age of digital and daily information it has become quite simple for marketing gurus to simply select and feed us the information they want.  They have complete access to our...