The expression ‘where is the beef” became famous during the UK election campaign in 1979 when Margaret Thatcher won the political argument against Labour Leader James Callaghan. Yet, in...

It gives me the shivers to even drive around the outskirts of Paceville, with all the confusion that exists between Spinola Bay and the traffic lights, and between the traffic lights and St...

The scandal regarding the fraud operated by Volkswagen in their emissions testing on new cars is the latest in a sequence of similar episodes that have developed on a global scale. Multinational...

When I wrote this column yesterday evening, beneath my Thursday column there were 450 comments and the discussion was still ongoing. The subject was not actually racism, but how – when there is...

These past few days, during and after the PN Independence Day celebrations, I have been struck by what I can only call the follies of party leader Simon Busuttil. The first folly, so to speak,...

On 1 May 2013, Roderick Galdes, Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Hunting and Trapping, announced that a technical loophole had been found “that would allow the government to present...

I see that the self-declared Maltese patriots have expressed disappointment at the low turn-out for their Valletta activity a weekend ago, during which some of them (how many more than...

The only source of knowledge is experience – Albert Einstein. How predictable of Labour this routine of kicking out the good guys has become.  They are like a group of teenage girls...

This month marks the half-way mark of this legislature. It is mid-road not just for Muscat’s government but also for Simon Busuttil’s Opposition. The polls have always shown Labour ahead...

Nine years ago, Maltese racists set fire to a house – a house, and not merely a front door – in which a family was sleeping. It was 3am, and they stacked lorry tyres packed with bottles of...