The vote in Iraq on Sunday to elect a 275-member National Assembly is an important test for US President George Bush’s mission to spread democracy through the Middle East....

On a recent visit to my village of Nadur, I was surprised to see this hole (picture) in the middle of the street leading to the Pjazzetta Arcipriet Dun Martin from the main road next to the Youngsters Football Club....

Now we all have heard it, loud and clear. George W. Bush – blessed be his name – in his address to the American people said that “we have received the message from way above the stars… that we are to spread freedom to our world”....

The free trade unions, once known as the unions tac-cekcik, are happily riding on the back of an unscrupulous tiger....

The government last Friday published a white paper proposing changes to improve the administration of justice. In this interview, Parliamentary Secretary Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici tells Matthew Xuereb about the government’s plans to make the system more effi...

The Malta Labour Party seems to be in an election mode....

Mr Victor Ciangura wrote a letter entitled The Maltese language (TMID 19 January) in which he said that the Broadcasting Authority should fine anyone who makes use of English on radio or television when they can use Maltese instead. ...

The prevailing debacle on the proposed removal of the entitlement to additional vacation leave for public holidays that fall at weekends is symptomatic of the political stasis that has pervaded institutional life in this country over the last few years. ...

It was a scene straight out of the panic-stricken Labour government years of the 1980s. It brought back memories so many of us would prefer to forget, but tell ourselves not to do so. Soldiers beating on riot shields, bearing down on unarmed, peaceful pro...

I am sure Daphne Caruana Galizia does not need championing by the likes of A. M. Bezzina and Dr G. Debono (TMIS, 9 December). She made her views about kerosene price increases known in her article of 12 December, probably read my reply of the 19th (or she...