Let us all send a message of thanks to the inventor of Muscatonomics, the man who like a latter-day Moses led us out of the infamy of the nasty Nationalists, and herded us to the promised land of l-aqwa żmien. Spare a moment to thank Joseph Muscat and the Joshua to Muscat’s Moses. Thank Robert [...]

Don’t underestimate the darkness of the days ahead. And don’t underestimate the anger, the frustration, and the willingness of our government to hang others for lynching in order to avoid consequences on themselves. This will be ugliest for people whom the government will find it easy to project as candidates for responsibility for the hardship [...]

Think of our financial services after grey-listing as a once glorious entertainment neighbourhood that has gone to seed. Think of the Atlantic City Boardwalk after the prohibition heyday and before Playboy bought a huge plot. Think of the streets down from the Boulevard de Clichy echoing the Belle Époque in the din of Japanese tourists [...]

Education, education, and education. Try to think beyond the next 10 years, which is exactly what this country struggles to do most of the time. We need to rebuild our offer to the world if we are going to become an investment destination and that will mean preparing a new generation of workers that is [...]

I asked in an earlier post what we should be doing now, as a country, to start earning again the trust of the rest of the world that we are reasonable partners on the world stage and a place where you don’t need to be a criminal to do business. It wasn’t the right question. [...]

And so it is that days after Robert Abela promised to put us firmly on the path of “l-aqwa fid-dinja”, the world has stuck a label to our door saying we’re not to be trusted. In what I promise to be a brief moment of uncharacteristic lack of humility (the moment has started, in case [...]