It is hard to imagine a more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. It is precisely what people ought to consider,...

The last President of the ex-Soviet Union, Gorbachev, put a new word in the world’s dictionaries – ‘Glasnost’ or Openness. This buzzword along with others of similar meanings...

Corruption is clearly the name of the game in the coming general election. Yet the vast majority of the Maltese people are still determined to vote for Joseph Muscat and his bunch of crooks. How...

To have an island that has been independent for more than 50 years and which is now exposed to financial gluttony at the highest level of government we have ever seen, reminds me of the book bearing...

Approximately two weeks ago, Joseph Muscat chose to (ab)use his prerogative and call for an early election probably in order to use a possible electoral victory in order to ablut himself and his...

We’re now halfway through this electoral campaign and of all the campaigns I remember, this must rank as the strangest. First of all, why are we at it now, more than a year early? Early...

It is only a matter of time before the chickens begin coming home to roost in the wake of the many corruption and money laundering scandals that are plaguing the country and its...

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The euro’s eighth birthday passed largely unnoticed on 1 January, despite the announcement a few days earlier by the European Central Bank that there are now more euro bills in circulation than US dollars....

The word – or, better still, the concept of – “change” has become part and parcel of our political life these past few weeks and it is clear that we will hear it being mentioned more as the national election approaches....