A politician operating on a peripheral European island-state, eager to appease insular, small-minded readers of tabloids, many of them crypto-racists who hate the idea of being properly regulated and who wrap themselves in the flag at the mere...

Muscat's plagiarised whinge of "Oligarchy" was given the lie by his warm-up act yesterday. Dr Robert Abela, who is not contesting the elections within Muscat's ranks, is the son of H.E. The President and a practising lawyer, whose firm holds the...

I've always been uncomfortable with certain regulatory aspects of the Broadcasting Authority (BA, now do you get the title?) having as I do this perhaps somewhat archaic respect for freedom of speech and viewers' intelligence.  It is true that the...

That politicians can't resist the temptation to resort to little gimmicks come election time is a given.   Babies are kissed, ties and funny hats are donned and doffed depending on the expected audience and little islands with three inhabitants are...

There's a saying about having enough dosh allows you to build roads on the sea. It doesn't mention pies in the sky, but perhaps it should. Joseph Muscat has made water and electricity rates his warhorse. It is the central theme of the campaign,...

With apologies for the headline to those who don't get Maltese ("it's obvious, innit?", approximately) I'm moved to that statement of the bleedin' obvious by the reaction to the PM's comment that the Nationalists are committed to energy price...

It's true what they say, from the mouths of ... the truth emerges. Saviour Balzan made the point on Monday morning, on TVAM, that Labour's campaign is going to be based exclusively on Joseph Muscat. Just to prove that he's not omniscient, he also...

The first intimation I received was through Twitter, consisting in Joseph Muscat retweeting his PR Guru (Kurt Farrugia)'s breathless announcement that "a new Labour Government will appoint a Minister for EU Affairs". Wow, what an earth-shattering...

Anyone with half a brain is morally convinced that Anglu Farrugia was knifed in the back and dumped not because of his inane remarks about that court case he says he won and the Magistrate who decided it.  After all, his former Leader was nodding...

It didn't end well.  I put a fiver on Louis Grech not winning the Deputy Leadship election within the Labour Party, basing myself on the way their Lil'Elves and Peculiar Pundits had poured such scorn on the PN's Leadership election. Well, that...