Good governance is clearly going to the dogs. It is not just a case of matters that could have been handled better, as Prime Minister Joseph Muscat stated in the aftermath of the Café Premier...

While the government is busy making some people millionaires, others are facing dire straits.  Rather than ensuring there are policies in place to deal with this deprivation, the focus is on...

Another week, another record-breaking Labour low. According to this lot’s greatly watered down code of ministerial ethics, the Speaker’s office is supposed to be informed when a minister...

So now we have a fresh, piping-hot scandal on our hands (“another week, another skandlu”). Joseph’s Taghna Lkoll government has left us breathless, but not in the way that he...

The latest batch of published statistics about economic performance during the first quarter of the year again confirmed the optimism that has gained ground. The rates of growth in a number of sectors...

Who hasn’t heard of the celebrated band Winter Moods?  Who hasn’t hummed Marigold or Everlasting or maybe My Neverland at some point in their life?   Well a couple of weeks...

The Government is in the middle of another scandal involving its property. It has been reported that a ‘famous’ concrete magnate, by the surname of Gaffarena, made a hefty profit through...

Labour and education never lived in the same street. Each time it was in government it never placed education as a priority. Worse, it dismantled most of what had been built...

On the CD player I have“Wings at the Speed of Sound”, released in 1976, playing. Silly Love Songs is on; McCartney is on the bass as the brass pop up to introduce the chorus. The song is a...

Beyond the ongoing controversies regarding the proposal to establish a new private University in Malta – some of which are hardly conducted in good faith – how can one arrive at a sensible...