“Only the little people pay taxes”
Josanne Cassar
In this upside down world we are living in, the rich get away with not paying, while those at the bottom of the scale have to pay every red cent
No politics, no scandal
As with Panama, Malta features prominently in the cache of the leaked Paradise Papers, but to date, no political names have been exposed.
They are not just townhouses in Zebbug
Saviour Balzan

The demolition of the Zebbug townhouses is far worse than the towers that Joe Portelli has erected, and were sanctioned even though the PA disregarded the...

The demolition of the Zebbug townhouses is far worse than...

Cartoon: 2 July 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

The civil liberties minefield

The Nationalist Party is already committed to support the bill by its electoral programme: to vote against the bill today would be a complete reversal of the...

The Nationalist Party is already committed to support the...

Appeals of Small Claims Tribunal are limited to points of law
Malcolm Mifsud

A Court of Appeal presiding over a case of Fogg Insurance Agencies Ltd noe...

A Court of Appeal presiding over a case of Fogg...

Conservative voices should not be shut down
Josanne Cassar

The beauty of a democracy is that everyone’s beliefs can be represented...

The beauty of a democracy is that everyone’s beliefs...

They’re not ‘dinosaurs’. Dinosaurs are extinct...
Raphael Vassallo

Their precious Nationalist Party has just been gutted like an Icthyosaurus at...

Their precious Nationalist Party has just been gutted like...

Malta’s low readership is a wake-up call for the government
Mark Camilleri

Books are not just a cultural segment offering enjoyment and an experience....

Books are not just a cultural segment offering enjoyment...

‘Bringing down the government’ should not be the Opposition’s aim

The allegations which prompted the early election remain, as yet, unproven. If it transpires that they were inaccurate or untrue, ‘bringing down his...

The allegations which prompted the early election remain,...

Not a statistic
Evarist Bartolo

A lot of people from Aleppo were killed. Residents had wrongly assumed the fighting would remain confined to other parts of the country

A lot of people from Aleppo were killed. Residents had...

Surplus and deceit

The accounts posted and accepted by the Central Bank of Malta in 1972 show that the NBM was solvent to the tune of Lm2.9 million as audited by the bank’s...

The accounts posted and accepted by the Central Bank of...

Not ‘traitors’, but certainly not ‘patriots’ either
Raphael Vassallo

By taking this idiotic partisan pique to the highest European levels, we...

By taking this idiotic partisan pique to the highest...

The singer not the song
Michael Falzon

Many posts on blogs and on Facebook provoke such one-sided blind hate that one starts to doubt whether we really are a mature and civilised country

Many posts on blogs and on Facebook provoke such one-sided...

Politicians: What not to do
Josanne Cassar

I really think we need to publish a guide for any aspiring politician who is keen on getting involved at local council level in the hope that one day this will...

I really think we need to publish a guide for any aspiring...

Hats off
Saviour Balzan

It is the people who cannot make ends meet who change the people at the top, not the man with the Chopard watch

It is the people who cannot make ends meet who change the...

A chance to pull our socks up

This legislature opens at a time when its services are most needed. Unfortunately it also opens under a cloud of mutual antagonism and distrust. But this...

This legislature opens at a time when its services are most...

Delusionally utopian or sound principles?

The conception of a feel-good factor is deceptive if it does not conform with...

The conception of a feel-good factor is deceptive if it...

Cartoon: 25 June 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

The Cittadella Traineeship Scheme

The 100 figure of “new employees” stationed at the Ċittadella is factually wrong on two counts – firstly because 43 is not 100, and secondly...

The 100 figure of “new employees” stationed at...