Why ‘All Lives Matter’ is dismissive and a foil for racists and the far-right in Malta

Matthew Vella

All Lives Matter is a foil that stops us from understanding and dealing with structural problems of racism and even other discriminatory attitudes that punish...

Confronting the skeletons of the recent past

Polls showing that Abela enjoys even greater support than Joseph Muscat should make him more – not...

‘Like’ and ‘Share’ are the new guns and tanks

Evarist Bartolo

We need to step up our efforts, at least in the European Union where our voice...

We need to step up our efforts, at least in the European...

Malta police arrests: normality and working institutions? That’s a kaleidoscopic hall of mirrors kind of statement…

The Skinny | No 23. Mass arrest of Malta’s traffic police

The Skinny | No 23. Mass arrest of Malta’s traffic...

Great, so when do we get La Valette’s sword back?

Raphael Vassallo

Greece gets its Marbles back… we get La Valette’s sword…...

Greece gets its Marbles back… we get La...

Michael Falzon

The survey confirmed that Delia became PN leader as a reaction to the ‘forma mentis’ of those in the know-it-all bubble – for want of...

The survey confirmed that Delia became PN leader as a...

Is the Caruana Galizia public inquiry really working?

Saviour Balzan

The public inquiry seems to be a show of naïveté about what has...

The public inquiry seems to be a show of...

Public sentiment does not grow in a vacuum

Josanne Cassar

The ongoing public inquiry into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, which...

The ongoing public inquiry into the murder of Daphne...

Labour at 100: the need for self-reflection

Labour’s centenary may be the perfect opportunity for the party to adopt...

Labour’s centenary may be the perfect opportunity for...

Any administrative act may be scrutinised by the Administrative Review Tribunal

Malcolm Mifsud

The Administrative Review Tribunal is competent to hear and decide any administrative act or measure taken by a public authority

The Administrative Review Tribunal is competent to hear and...

Josanne Cassar

The inequity of household incomes has been brought very much into the forefront with this cheque, proving once again how everything in life is relative

The inequity of household incomes has been brought very...

Malta’s medical doctors: No to total ban on abortion

By Gilbert Gravino and Liza Caruana-Finkel • Contrary to the long-held...

By Gilbert Gravino and Liza Caruana-Finkel • Contrary...

Raphael Vassallo

Let’s face it: a state cannot be defined as ‘normal’ if it allows politics to impede the police from investigating serious crimes. But at...

Let’s face it: a state cannot be defined as...

The government would be wise to rekindle a proposal made in one of its own budgets, and set up a public agency that would be responsible for tracking...

The government would be wise to rekindle a proposal made in...

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Malcolm Mifsud

A cheque every now and then is good, but send me one every week and you’ll have a voter for life

No 21. Edward Scicluna’s bread-and-milk money

Michael Falzon

Delia is probably delusional, but so are those who want to oust him… they refuse to face the truth why so many PN voters switched. They lack political...

Delia is probably delusional, but so are those who want to...

Raphael Vassallo

Ultimately, Robert Abela can only restore confidence in the system by coming to grips, once and for all, with all its underlying cracks and fissures… in...

Ultimately, Robert Abela can only restore confidence in the...

The PL-PN duopoly is finally fraying. And in ways least expected | Godfrey Baldacchino

For a party in government for seven years, rattled of late by allegations and revelations of shady deals and corrupt practices, the PL’s stratospheric...

For a party in government for seven years, rattled of late...

Why does disagreeing with someone have to lead to rage?

Josanne Cassar

As a nation we should thank this whistleblower who was brave enough to expose...

As a nation we should thank this whistleblower who was...

For Abela, an urgent political decision is up next...

Saviour Balzan

Robert Abela is in a quandary. Apart from the NAO investigation, he will...

Robert Abela is in a quandary. Apart from the NAO...