For one nationalist MEP busy plagiarising journalists and EU Commission pages there’s another who is busy asking relevant questions of our representatives in the national parliament. Writing in today’s Times EPP MEP Simon Busuttil asks why Malta’s parliamentarians do not submit reactions to the proposals generated by the European Commission. Simon describes the situation as…

The battle for the seats in Brussels and Strasbourg is over and the Maltese people have spoken. J’accuse’s mission as scourge of the candidates engaged in taking us all for a ride continues. During the election MEP re-candidate for the Nationalist Pick’N’Mix party David Casa was exposed by J’accuse for having cut and pasted his…

This morning at 0730 hrs the police in Calais encircled the illegal camp known as “la jungle” and began the evacuation of what was left of its population. La Jungle consisted of a run down camp built by refugees and sans papiers as a temporary base before attempting to hop off the mainland and into…

An amendment to the Animal Welfare Act will soon address a lacuna in the law  whereby the keeping of wild and dangerous animals is not properly regulated. Sources at the Resources Ministry confirmed that this amendment will soon be proposed in Parliament and the Times links this amendment to the finding of the Bengal Tiger earlier…

This article and accompanying Bertoon appeared in today’s edition of The Malta Independent on Sunday. L’Oreal, the cosmetics giant has commissioned an encyclopaedia that encompasses the history of Beauty. They are not the first and will certainly not be the last to tackle this topic – one can only think of Umberto Eco or Alain…

You’d think that with the number of aspirant legislators in this country they’d have got the lawmaking business down to a tee. Every candidate that aspires to represent you in the hallowed halls of parliament (and in the future of Piano’s parliament) is also aspiring to form a significant part of the law-making process. Parliament…