Sexual assault within a marriage is no laughing matter
Josanne Cassar
For many who posted cruel comments online about a husband’s violent assault on his 68-year-old wife, it seems the dignity of the human being means very little
No rollback on Aarhus
What matters is not just that information is provided to those interested in a particular permit as clients or objectors, but that this information is easily accessible to those...
Someone’s head will roll
Saviour Balzan

When I broke the oil kickbacks scandal in January 2013, I had hard facts and documents. I presented them to the police assistant commissioner Michael Cassar on...

When I broke the oil kickbacks scandal in January 2013, I...

More police needed in fight against poaching

Poachers don’t just shoot at protected birds, but they also gleefully...

Poachers don’t just shoot at protected birds, but...

Maltese Court may still have jurisdiction irrespective of foreign jurisdiction clause
Malcolm Mifsud

The Maltese Court may have jurisdiction to hear and decide cases where the parties have signed a contract which indicates another country to have judicial...

The Maltese Court may have jurisdiction to hear and decide...

Don’t give us any leeway, because we just can’t handle it
Josanne Cassar

It is not a very wise idea to give this nation any sort of absolution, or...

It is not a very wise idea to give this nation any sort of...

Free healthcare, but at what cost?
Raphael Vassallo

The sustainability of the healthcare system has become one of our island’s most cherished political fairy tales

The sustainability of the healthcare system has become one...

An act of humiliation and violence

The only way the Marsa raid can possibly be described as ‘not a case of racial profiling’ is when it is conducted indiscriminately on all...

The only way the Marsa raid can possibly be described...

Facts not frenzy
Evarist Bartolo

The rhetoric will get louder between now and election day, but it is worth collecting our thoughts and analysing things from a factual point of view

The rhetoric will get louder between now and election day,...

The serpentine road of the defamation Bill
Ingram Bondin

The Bill is attempting to put a special emphasis on insults as a way of...

The Bill is attempting to put a special emphasis on insults...

The politics of consensus
Ann Fenech

Marlene Farrugia understands only too well that standing for election on one’s own, will counter-intuitively, help Labour get an approval for the...

Marlene Farrugia understands only too well that standing...

Cartoon: 19 April 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Religion as an identity totem

Whether compulsory or as a complementary subject to religion, the teaching of ethics provides an opportunity to create a common ethical ground for an...

Whether compulsory or as a complementary subject to...

Go on, Sandro: make hay while the sun shines!
Raphael Vassallo

Nobody in the Labour camp seems to have any trouble believing their party would...

Nobody in the Labour camp seems to have any trouble...

Coalition: To be, or not to be
Michael Falzon

It seems to be a big gamble on Simon Busuttil’s part, that could lead to a quasi-Pyrrhic victory because Marlene will certainly not let go and start...

It seems to be a big gamble on Simon Busuttil’s part,...

Traffic, the seemingly insurmountable problem
Josanne Cassar

We can either spend the next 20 years complaining about the traffic while doing...

We can either spend the next 20 years complaining about the...

The last bastion
Saviour Balzan

We need to remove at once those policies that are causing irreversible harm that have changed the look of our country. We need to address the issue of...

We need to remove at once those policies that are causing...

Cartoon: 16 April 2016

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Works on a pavement may contribute spoliation
Malcolm Mifsud

Works carried by one of two warring bar owners constituted spoliation of the...

Works carried by one of two warring bar owners constituted...

Stooges for PN propaganda

The feeble PN uses the English-language dailies in Malta to unremittingly firing salvos of often vitriolic invective against the Labour government

The feeble PN uses the English-language dailies in Malta to...