It might be miraculous bordering on the incredible, but the Nationalist Party seems to have woken up to the idea that not only do we not really care what goes on between consenting adults as long as they don't scare the horses, but that at the same...

The Fourth Estate, being a pompous way of saying "the media", has a significant role in a democracy, as one of the ways the citizenry can keep tabs on the other three pillars. For those of you who suffer from a democratic deficit, these are the...

A few blogs ago, I floated the idea that the Nationalist Party should embrace its Young Turks and turn them into the Republic's Loyal Opposition, because the ones who are supposed to be doing this job just aren't. To be fair, the Young Turks'...

As I write this, Mario Monti has been asked to form the next Italian government, taking over from that Berlusconi joke, whose machismo has failed to render him impermeable in the eyes of the electorate.   So important was it for someone like Monti...

In the aftermath to the confidence vote called - and won - by the PM, Labour Deputy Leader Anglu Farrugia was on telly, having a bit of a chinwag about the events. I suspect Labour really, really would love to kiss and make up with Peppi Azzopardi,...

On Monday night, the TV chanced on "Inkontri", Super One TV's talking-heads show hosted by one of the Brothers Grim(a) I couldn't hear all of what was being said, though at some point, mention was made of other media figures, and not on...

I'm not talking about the confidence vote the PM called for Tuesday: the result of that is as foregone a conclusion as the result of Friday's piece of work, once Dr Franco Debono had painted himself into the corner. Up to a few days before, I was...

Everyone and her brother is getting in on the "let's comment on Franco Debono" act, so I suppose I shouldn't be any different. There's a concurrent comedy playing, it's called the "let's bash Lou Bondi" show, where it seems that a great swathe of...

The Hon. Dr Franco Debono decided that he had better things to do than attend the PN's Executive, convened to discuss the very situation he himself had conjured up when he declared that he was going to abstain on Labour's opportunistic motion about...

I write this while figuratively speaking shaking my head in some wonderment. Wonderment, if you'll forgive me, at how a young politician seems to be heading into what can only result in his political oblivion, much as I know that he would dearly,...