You bought me a present? Why would you do such a thing? I know you think you’re being generous, but the foundation of gift giving is reciprocity. You haven’t given me a gift, you’ve given me an obligation. The essence of the custom is that I now have to go out and purchase...

Why wait for the Finance Minister to announce rises in utilities bills during his budget speech when you could read it all in the Daily Mail the next day? Actually what is reported in the Mail  is what one would expect in a normal country – and the leader of the opposition should know...

The 2009 budget is out and we already have the first reactions. PL Leader Joseph Muscat predictably labeled this year’s budget as irresponsible, his main target being the fact that no indication has been given in this budget as to what the extent of the new raise in the utilities bill...

The debate on censorship, explicit language and Alex Vella Gera rages on. And J’accuse still has much to add. At some point yesterday Alex Vella Gera’s status on Facebook read as follows: “Kemm qed ituni f’ghajni dan-nies kollha li qed jikkundannaw il-ban ta’...

Juanito Camilleri should thank his lucky stars. At least he had to contend with a bit of paper that could be considered by the more conservative elements of society as being a tad on the raunchy side. His counterparts at the Brasilian University of Bandeirantes had to resort to another form of...