2004 began badly, continued so so and could not have ended worse....

Without in any way desiring to be misunderstood by people who I know are well-intentioned, and without in any way wanting to be interpreted as pulling the leg of such well intentioned persons...

One does not know whether to laugh or cry after reading the reply given in Parliament by Dr Austin Gatt to a PQ last month....

I would like to compliment A. M. Bezzina (TMIS, 26 December). He certainly seems to know me more than I know myself....

We have started another year, one that, like those that preceded it, will bring with it a number of challenges, wins and defeats, joy and disappointment, love and betrayal....

Michael Falzon (TMID 30 December) rests his case when he has no case to rest. Mr Falzon’s reasons that a possible sixth observer seat for the European Parliament elections should be awarded using a strictly proportional division of first count votes. ...

Only the Good Lord knows exactly the many lives that have been lost in the Boxing Day seaquake on the Indian Ocean floor which then caused the awesome, dramatic and frightful spectacle of those giant waves many metres high which resulted in the loss of no...

An old Westminster joke describes a young member of parliament sneaking out of his first parliamentary group meeting to take his place on the back benches of the House....

The debate about the budget, which took up three weeks of parliamentary work, is over....

Having analysed, in past contributions, the general orientation of the 2005 budget and its insufficiency to even come anywhere near addressing our economic ailments, I propose today to comment specifically on two budget measures which appear to have been ...