Polls at the end of the campaign by and large yield the same figures of polls before the campaign started. The consistent results in surveys conducted by different analysts reinforce each other and the confidence that they are correct. Whether Robert Abela manages to increase the record gap over the PN that Joseph Muscat secured [...]

This website is informed that General Workers’ Union officials contacted this morning dozens of Gozitan voters ostensibly to give them a “job interview”. Within minutes of these fake interviewers, these voters were offered a full-time permanent employment contract under the community work scheme run by the union. Dozens of contracts were signed on the spot [...]

You look at the picture above, the brazen normality with which this thing is received, and you realise just how far our so-called democracy has eroded. A candidate sends his potential voters money in the form of a petrol voucher to encourage them to vote for him. This is not just pathetic. It's not just [...]

Entry requirements to join the University’s Junior College have been eased to allow students to join the high school considered as the pathway to university education without a certificate in English or mathematics. The old requirement of a pass in Maltese or one of three sciences (physics, chemistry, or biology) has also been scrapped. Requirements [...]

I’ve had to update the post I published yesterday surveying matters in which our electoral process falls short of international standards because a new shortfall I was never aware of emerged over the day. The court yesterday rejected a plea from the Nationalist Party that wanted the early vote conducted inside the prisons cancelled and [...]

My wife, Clemence, continues her diary of her trip to the Polish border with Ukraine. Her first entry is linked here. You only need a few hours driving from place to place here to realise just how real is real. Nothing one sees on TV or reads online can give the true feeling of what [...]

The only possible interpretation of this Facebook post is that Ms Magro got a free TV from government Minister Michael Farrugia and she's expressing public gratitude for the gift. It is not an enormous leap of faith to think that now Josephine Magro will vote for Michael Farrugia at Saturday's ballot. If that's her house, [...]