A new hat needed

Saviour Balzan

what we need is a very important game changer, a new player who can stand up and be taken seriously. And this has to come from elsewhere, not from the ranks of the Opposition or...

Malta must mend the fences

The country cannot continue to ignore the present antipathy in its regard within the European Parliament, even if the EP’s treatment of Malta is sometimes unfair

Eviction cannot be blocked by the Court, if it has already been carried out

Malcolm Mifsud

The First Hall of the Civil Court turned down a warrant issue request of prohibitory injunction to block an eviction but the court marshals had already changed...

The First Hall of the Civil Court turned down a warrant...

Post-truth world not good for man’s future

Parliaments are important, as are political leaders, but people suffer in spite...

Parliaments are important, as are political leaders, but...

Matthew Bugeja

Continuing the war in Afghanistan is no longer a case of working to achieve victory, but rather, it is about prolonging a stalemate, or at worst, delaying a...

Continuing the war in Afghanistan is no longer a case of...

Integration, political correctness and racism

Josanne Cassar

It is pretty hypocritical of us to speak so scathingly of...

‘Reconciliation’, they said. ‘It’s easy’, they said...

Raphael Vassallo

Once described as a 'land of attitudes and platitudes', Malta is a...

Once described as a 'land of attitudes and...

The result of Saturday's first round of voting in the PN leadership election was an eye-opener but can we predict the eventual election result?

The result of Saturday's first round of voting in the...

Evarist Bartolo

Oftentimes, we forget how important it is for our children to be children. You only get to be a child once, so don't spend it worrying too much about the...

Oftentimes, we forget how important it is for our children...

Marco Bonnici

A formal request has been filed to the Ministry for Education and Employment to discuss the formula used to allocate central funds to State schools. How will...

A formal request has been filed to the Ministry for...

Raphael Vassallo

The leadership election of any party is decided by an internal vote: in this case, 1,500 'party councillors'. What might their priorities be?

The leadership election of any party is decided by an...

Michael Falzon

Ranging from 1973 to current times, have things changed all that drastically or have they remained the same? An inside look into the Daphne Caruana...

Ranging from 1973 to current times, have things changed all...

Saviour Balzan

If Adrian Delia does become leader he will enforce his autocratic style that goes beyond the rhetoric we have heard. His talk of inclusivity is not...

If Adrian Delia does become leader he will...

Josanne Cassar

Only after it has rebuilt the shattered pieces of the party making it sturdy again, can the PN hope to be the truly effective Opposition that the country...

Only after it has rebuilt the shattered pieces of the party...

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Arnold Cassola

Josanne Cassar

Saviour Balzan

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

More than 20,000 foreigners have come to Malta in recent years: according to the JobsPlus director, “attracting them again, and in larger numbers, is a...

More than 20,000 foreigners have come to Malta in recent...

[WATCH] Why Labour hasn’t criticised Adrian Delia

Saviour Balzan

In today’s video-blog, MediaToday managing editor Saviour Balzan comments...

In today’s video-blog, MediaToday managing editor...

Warrant of prohibitory injunction approved irrespective of special hypothec

Malcolm Mifsud

A Magistrate’s Court upheld an application for a warrant of prohibitory injunction, even though the applicant had a special hypothec in his favour

A Magistrate’s Court upheld an application for a...

The Conversation

Milena Pavlova writes: Perhaps most critical is the fact that the share of working people who can provide care to the older persons is shrinking, even as the...

Milena Pavlova writes: Perhaps most critical is the fact...

It is vastly more important to decide who we want to be as a country, than to reflect on those who inhabited these islands before us

It is vastly more important to decide who we want to be as...