Different parties, same stinking fiscal system
Raphael Vassallo
Make sure you fully enjoy voting for a choice of identical two parties, that promise to retain and defend precisely the same stinking fiscal system you’re all currently...
Patients before profits
Our health system is in need of innovation but transparent, robust public funding and a better use of resources are the answer and not privatisation
Xarabank: The paradox of the programme so many love to hate
Josanne Cassar

For a long time Xarabank was very watchable television. But it entered dubious...

For a long time Xarabank was very watchable television. But...

That’s some ‘protection of human rights’, you know...
Raphael Vassallo

How do 33 people living and working here legally constitute a threat? How does...

How do 33 people living and working here legally constitute...

Time to reform press laws

There can be no doubt that libel suits are a weapon in the hands of the powerful

There can be no doubt that libel suits are a weapon in the...

Cartoon: 15 February 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Poodling in the era of Brexit Britain
Peter Apap Bologna

Theresa May has to deal not only with Brexit, but with a new and frightening US President

Theresa May has to deal not only with Brexit, but with a...

Partner Schools: qualified and skilled
Evarist Bartolo

The ultimate aim of this initiative is to strengthen the provision of vocational education in schools through the achievement of the vocational diploma at an...

The ultimate aim of this initiative is to strengthen the...

From the Curia to a brothel and back to Shanghai
Frank Psaila

Both the government and the opposition have promised to remove criminal libel,...

Both the government and the opposition have promised to...

The real threat to democracy

The undisguised nepotism that has dogged Joseph Muscat’s first term has severely eroded public trust in vital national institutions

The undisguised nepotism that has dogged Joseph...

Confusing the issues
Michael Falzon

Joseph Muscat has a well thought out PR strategy while Simon Busuttil and his team are often falling between two stools. Too often

Joseph Muscat has a well thought out PR strategy while...

Publish and be damned, sue and be damned... either way, you’re damned
Raphael Vassallo

Removing the garnishee order – even in its totality – will not even begin to address the Pandora’s Box that Chris Cardona's case has...

Removing the garnishee order – even in its totality...

[WATCH] Saviour Balzan's videoblog
Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan's Il-Punt • Is the government banking on strong economy hoping it will make up for all its shortcomings? Saviour Balzan takes a look at...

Saviour Balzan's Il-Punt • Is the government...

The obligations of objective journalism
Josanne Cassar

We are living at a time when the Internet has potentially made anyone a publisher, which may give the illusion that the usual duties, obligations and ethical...

We are living at a time when the Internet has potentially...

Cartoon: 12 February 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

The elements required in order to prove the offence of judicial or legal perjury
Malcolm Mifsud

The court held that the accused never intended to obscure the truth or hide that which he was testifying about, and so acquitted him of all charges brought...

The court held that the accused never intended to obscure...

Brexit is no fascist coup

Your point is poorly put to say the least on the view that a minority are deciding what happens to Britain

Your point is poorly put to say the least on the view that...

What’s the matter with public opinion?
Josanne Cassar

This government is suffering from a serious case of lack of credibility, but you won’t see any large-scale manifestations of people waving their...

This government is suffering from a serious case of lack of...

Land of the brave, home of the ‘pastizz’
Raphael Vassallo

Is it down to the nature of our interminable insistence at finding fault with...

Is it down to the nature of our interminable insistence at...

Blaming the interconnector is not good enough

It is Labour’s failure to deliver that is now the issue

It is Labour’s failure to deliver that is now the...