Imagine, for argument’s sake, that a Nationalist government decided to permanently anchor a tanker containing gas off Ghar id-Dud, in Sliema.   Just try to envisage what the people of...

I honestly cannot understand why the Leader of the Opposition accepted the invitation to go on Xarabank and face the prime minister.   I am not saying this because I feel he was roundly...

David Cameron took his small daughter to nursery school some days ago and the resulting photographs were published throughout the British press and even in France. In all of those I saw, the little...

...] iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli / uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim / imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se / continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, / panis et circenses....

It is becoming increasingly obvious, between the hand rubbing glee of Minister Edward Scicluna at the EU’s report confirming Malta’s economic growth and the increasing jobless queues at...

One year ago last Sunday, the Labour Party that had been on the Opposition benches for practically 25 years came back to power following an astounding election victory. The new Labour government was...

About a year ago, the horsemeat scandal made headline news across Europe and even further. The story, that horsemeat was being passed off as beef, exposed the complex nature of our globalised food...

On 24 May, the Maltese and Gozitans will have the opportunity to vote in elections for the European Parliament. I will be contesting those elections on behalf of the Labour Party.   People...

Let us be frank with each other. After announcing my candidature for the European Parliament election of next May, I’m pretty sure that at some point or another, some have had questions, if not...

Of course, few people in the world today take the international media seriously anymore. It is why most of us now prefer to watch/follow an array of news-providers rather than just one station that...