Fifty-two years ago, on a hot day on 11th October, still a young MUSEUM teenager, my face was glued to the windowpane of Farrugia 'tar-radjijiet' showroom in High Street Hamrun for a full four hours,...

I'm not a big football fan, in fact I'm not even a little bit fond of the sport, but last Monday, thanks to the Malta vs Italy World Cup Qualifier, my love for the game multiplied a thousand...

The fear of history repeating itself forced me to re-read the story of Germany between 1928 and 1933. By 1928, Germany was recovering well from the shattering experience of the First World War and the...

Archbishop Mgr Paul Cremona has resigned the post. He has said that he has been thinking about it for two years, and that he is leaving the helm of the church in Malta. It has taken him quite a while,...

A former senior police officer, ex-Assistant Commissioner Michael Cassar, was in the news recently in connection with the case instituted by the Prime Minister against the Opposition Leader following...

Throughout the legislature of the Nationalist Government, so much negative propaganda was thrown by the opposition (and from its own backbenches) at any legislations, projects, initiatives and...

You have to hand it to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. He is a pro at covering incompetence, creating excuses and spinning his storylines. When the electoral campaign kicked off in January 2013,...

Kevin Bonello, the President of the Malta Union of Teachers recently referred to the religious curriculum in our schools. This was not a casual reference and a section of the press used it to fire its...

The prime minister quite obviously thinks that the most suitable attitude to adopt, as his government is mired in a slew of bad news concerning its roadmap, is a positive one. Never has he...

It was not a surprise to me that the government has failed to deliver on its pre-election promise that Malta would have a new gas-fired power station up and running by March 2015. I am not an...