In my real life, I have to interact with the Industrial Tribunal quite a bit. Everyone involved in cases there always gives basically the same respect due to a member of the judiciary to the chairpersons of the Tribunal, which is no bad thing at...

A young biker lost his life on Saturday evening. I am a biker, as is my son, and it is in the nature of biking that when a brother or sister goes down, you feel it more keenly, and when your nearest and dearest are out on the road, each news report...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has the right to that title by dint of a resounding victory.  He achieved this victory partly on the back of a media campaign that combined slick sound-bites, snappy come-backs and sharp visuals, helped no end by a...

The Labour Party, bless its little cotton socks, has decreed that Simon Busuttil should eliminate "us and them" politics. No doubt, as soon as he doesn't do what Labour's heart desires, the usual chant of "thirty six thousand and you didn't learn...

Tomorrow, the Nationalist Party will begin the process to elect a new leader, making this the last day with Dr Lawrence Gonzi at its head. I have no doubt that the shallow, the twisted, the bitter and the ungrateful will have enormous fun on the...

No, this is not a piece about the crypto-Labourites who have been outed by josephmuscat.con’s appointment (of them) to various boards in his gift. To start with, I’m not one of those who thinks he’s doing anything particularly wrong – every...

To read certain columnists, that blinking open space, part of Piano's design for City Gate, remains the be-all and end-all of everything that matters in the country. In fact, the debate has expanded to take in the roof, rather than lack thereof, of...

As I believe I had reported, if not, I'm doing it now, at a party before the elections, I had come across a gentleman (and I use the term loosely) who had said that he would not be voting (code for "I will be voting Labour") because "I hate...

This is not an analysis of the merits of the new incumbent of the post of Chief Cop, or of those of his predecessor.  That can be left to commentators who have a more direct interest in, and knowledge of, matters constabulary. What do you mean,...

Prof. Kevin Aquilina responded, if not in so many words, but in many words, to my question "why do we need a new Constitution". He left one word out: convention. I don't mean the Constitutional Convention which that lawyer from Ghaxaq has been...