Muscat visits Luxembourg Bettel the Strong Luxembourg’s PM Xavier Bettel was criticized this week for his decision not to attend a farewell dinner for Simona Frankel, the Israeli ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg. Reports in the Israeli and Luxembourg press suggested that Bettel...

Dr. No Raphael Vassallo dedicated his latest opinion column on Saviour Balzan’s portal to what purports to be an analysis of the last post on this blog – The PN must die. Preliminary remarks are in order before tackling the actual content of the column. It would seem that...

The weeks of long knives at the PN HQ have just been put in temporary suspension as an apparent reprieve has been found. ‘Party stalwart’ Louis Galea described as the man who transformed the PN into a ‘slick political machine’ between 1977 and 1987 has been appointed...

Paul Gavan (Ireland, UEL) for the people of Malta. In the background Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi, for the government. “disappointed by the amendments tabled by the Maltese colleagues… when you are in a hole stop digging!” Last night, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of...

Order to chaos Speaker Bercow stood up and made a statement. He did so from his position within an old and respectable institution and what he said was firmly embedded and rooted in tradition. It was not tradition for the sake of tradition but rather the kind of tradition that forms part...

“(An MP) his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. … Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he...

“They don’t have to show us Catch-22,” the old woman answered. “The law says they don’t have to.”“What law says they don’t have to?”“Catch-22.” Catch-22, Joseph Heller Konrad Mizzi, the government and anybody with...

Paolo Polidori’s Facebook post Last Friday (the 4th of January) the vice-mayor of the Italian city of Trieste put up a post on Facebook in which he explained that while walking through one of the streets of the city he had come across a pile of covers, jackets and other similar...

Citizens have a duty to ensure that their government is monitored whenever it manages their public land.

Vorrei essere libero, libero come un uomo. Vorrei essere libero come un uomo. Come un uomo appena nato Che ha di fronte solamente la natura E cammina dentro un bosco Con la gioia di inseguire un’avventura. Sempre libero e vitale Fa l’amore come fosse un animale Incosciente come un...

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Strong winds in Luxembourg last night uprooted several trees around the country. Bad weather can be a bummer. That’s bad weather though, in Malta some idiot sitting at a desk decided to kill a tree that had lived through a world war because “it was becoming dangerous for passers by”....