Ever since this Panamagate business was revealed by journalist Daphne Caruana Galiza on her blog the government has been going round and round like a headless chicken. And this is the most benign...

The very same person who had most unsuccessfully attempted to strip journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia of her right to protect her sources with the preposterous claim to the courts that she is not a...

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The Christ the King monument in Floriana stand tall and mighty, but this work by the renowned Maltese sculptor Antonio Sciortino today looks like a portrayal of an abandoned national...

Sometimes it is hard to focus on one single topic in my Sunday piece, considering the many events that pack my week. It is such a marvellous challenge and great honour to be fully involved in...

In 1900, Republican, William McKinley [25th US President] took it on himself to send troops to China in the Eight Nations Alliance’s “China Relief Expedition”, without prior...

Let's say it like it is: what we are up against is a huge, lucrative, multi-million euro business. Last month, at the opening of its new European Migrant Smuggling...

The national protest held a fortnight ago in Valletta is considered by many as a watershed moment for the Nationalist Party. The party has clearly turned the corner and is making steady and...

The present electoral system is enough to break any unprepared 3rd party’s will. Everything is in place to ensure that under normal conditions, no real competition can possibly rise up against...

Way back in the eighties and nineties the term ‘trust’ was associated with the Fenech Adami government and it encapsulated the essence of the optimism of the era. Conversely, trust today...