Claire Bonello: Vongole or votes? On several occasions, the editor of this newspaper Saviour Balzan has written of his intention to organize a day trip to Sicily on election day. He says that his voting document will be poked into his pet budgie’s cage and he and the growing number of Maltese citizens who are disgusted with the state of Maltese politics will have a short break from our shores to savour a marinara feast across the waters....

Raphael Vassallo: We need a bigger bandwagon Ah the little joys of life. Last week the inventor of media spin in the 21st Century, as well as the chief architect behind the justification of the Iraq war in 2003, published his much-anticipated diaries...

Anna Mallia: Equality, my foot! In Malta we have a commission entitled the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality whose aim is also to ensure that there is equality between the sexes, I am afraid to say that they are more focused on equality on paper than in practice.