They kicked off. The campaigns that is. By some unwritten conspiracy I was meant to leave the island the day it all went into top gear – only just. I was still in Malta when Joseph Muscat’s team went for the mother of all gimmicks and gave us the midnight launch. Did we need to...

A couple of months ago Simon Busuttil visited the Luxembourg expat community in his capacity as EU MEP. Exceptionally I decided to attend the meeting and had a cordial chat with Simon. I say “expat community” but I mean “Maltese EU institution workers” because there is...

It would not be much time before Louis Grech would have to move out of the “pretty face” comfort zone and be obliged to give us a demonstration of his political nous. “From Brussels with love” was his honeymoon period – yet another  EU veteran riding on the crest...

In tennis they don’t use the word zero when counting scores. They have a fancy name for it – they call it love. Some say that the name came from the tennis courts among the nobles in France when they used to call the zero “l’oeuf” (the egg) thanks to its ovoid...

Jekk tinzerta tkun qiegħed ħdejn xi bajja Maltija taf tara kartelluni li javzaw lil kull min bi ħsiebu jgħum illi “Topless sunbathing is prohibited”. Dejjem laqtitni din fuq ħafna livelli. L-ewwelnett għax għadna iffissati biż-żejża. L-iskop ta’ din il-projbizzjoni...