The signs are everywhere around us. The gaming industry will no longer be for Malta what is has been for the past 10 years. One after the other gaming companies are doing what they’ve always threatened to do: flick shut their laptops and move elsewhere. Not all their reasons for moving could have been avoided. [...]

Julia Farrugia had to parry Karol Aquilina’s onslaught yesterday. She wasn’t very good. To be fair to the honourable lady defending the sale of Maltese citizenship is like talking up Genghis Khan’s table manners. You can try but the loud burping will still drown you out. ‘Revoking citizenship’ is, in my view, a notional abhorrence. [...]