Resignations are just not part of our political culture.  In many other countries, the revelation that a minister and the Prime Minister’s chief of staff had opened secret offshore...

One of the most striking aspects of the past year and a half has been the amazing way the administration closes ranks when it is attacked. There have been instances in the past when there was...

Slowly, inexorably, the noose is getting tighter. This is not Malta as we know it. It is the world as we do not know it. Just as whoever planned Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder did not...

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All throughout the Pilatus Bank saga that enveloped the nation over the course of the last week, the narrative being spewed by the government’s acolytes has been more than somewhat lacking in...

Last week I was once again on the streets of our beautiful country to meet people in our towns, busy with their daily chores, or at their place of work. This direct contact with people is essential...

Lucilla MacLaren Spillane writes beautiful poetry. This is not surprising as her father was Hamish MacLaren one of the most important Scottish poets of the post First World War era. I've read them...

Between 23 September and 2 October there are two interesting feasts which are worth remembering. The first one is that of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina and the second one is that of the Guardian...

The hunting and trapping issue has, over the past two decades, always been a hot potato in Malta, given the strong hold the hunters and trappers federation has over its members - a federation which...

In the first year of a Labour government, the number of those living in poverty has shot up to 99,000. This means that a quarter of the Maltese population is either materially deprived, severely...