In its 6pm news bulletin on Saturday, 17 August, PBS completely ignored the press conference that had been given by Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi.   The news had been online on various...

Żminijietna - Voice of the Left calls on the Minister of Education to withdraw his declared policy regarding empty schools. These must be used for the benefit of the community and not sold to the...

A resurgence of violence and a renewed threat from al-Qaida have recently revived flagging US interest in Iraq, as Baghdad asked for new help to fight extremists less than two years after it forced...

Two international stories have made the headlines these past few days, both concerning names given to newly-born children.   The first was that, in London, the most popular name is Mohammed,...

The Nationalist Party is in dire straits. Those dire straits are financial, but from that, all else springs – or doesn’t. Unless the money problems are sorted out, the political problems...

Not enough emphasis has been made on one huge political blunder committed by the late Nationalist administration in the years before its defeat.   For all the talk about how Malta’s...

The great hunting debate was back on the radar, if in fact it ever left it, this week after the government announced the dates and conditions of this year’s autumn hunting season. The main bone...

Realpolitik dominated every aspect of the handling of the Greek tanker, MT Salamis, incident last week. It was realpolitik that impelled Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to refuse to off-load the 102...

I was more than amused this morning when I went for my daily dip in the blue Mediterranean that would energise the rest of my day. A group of small boat owners were loudly discussing Malta’s...

It’s holiday mode for many of us so ideally we should all forget all ills and just enjoy the hot weather, the sea and the ħobż biż-żejt. But, as all doctors will vouch, if you are on any...