I am not sure if anyone is allowed to coin new words in the lexicon but I will use a writer’s licence to do so. We often boast about Malta being a democracy. I have often thought about this and...

The answers given by many Eurosceptics to the challenges we face, including migration, is that we must seek our national self-interest and give up on cooperation. Eurosceptics believe that the...

“Working for a cause is no guarantee for applause” may be a variation on the known saying, but could very well describe the reality for many of us engaged in public life. There are...

“There is no immigrant crisis,” said philosopher Slavoj ?i?ek to the journalist during an interview on UK’s Channel 4 a couple of years ago. His point was that, beyond the...

The police question the captain of a ship who saved 234 lives, and arraign him on charges that he broke maritime law, and yet a minister and the prime minister’s chief of staff are not even...

The real threat from irregular migration is not the people who are seeking asylum but, rather, those raging racists amongst us who by all rights should be thrown into an asylum. After Italy...

For yet another day the Sea-Watch 3 and the Lifeline NGO migrant rescue vessels remained stuck in port in Malta and unable render their life-saving operations after the Maltese government forbade them...

On 26 June, Malta's Parliament voted unanimously in favour of the three Bills that were piloted by parliamentary secretary Silvio Schembri and his team. After months of consultation and tweaking, the...

We knew that they looked ugly on the outside, but this week we found out that they look equally ugly on the inside.  We are speaking, of course, about the hideous kiosks installed at City Gate...

The news from Germany is that the coalition led by Angela Merkel is teetering on the brink of collapse as key German minister Horst Seehofer, head of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union, is...