Getting the PN out of the mess
Michael Falzon
The PN is lamenting the weakening of our democratic institutions, the rule of law and democracy in Malta
'Let's be positive'
Saviour Balzan
The media is not and should not be a platform for good news. The only media that pronounce the good news as if it were Christmas everyday are l-Orrizont and In-Nazzjon
‘Norbert’s Nails’, revisited
Raphael Vassallo

It seems to me that the source of the outrage is not the concept of Jesus actually eating a pizza but the fact that there is no longer any legal...

It seems to me that the source of the outrage is not...

The Last Supper, but not the last controversy

What this case has revealed is a deep and widespread misunderstanding of...

What this case has revealed is a deep and widespread...

The door is always open
Frank Psaila

The PN must rediscover its long lost can do approach: open its doors wide open for all people of good will; stand up for what is right and place the individual...

The PN must rediscover its long lost can do approach: open...

It all started 53 years ago
Evarist Bartolo

Progress has sometimes been slow, and sometimes non-existent but ultimately you cannot have second-class citizens

Progress has sometimes been slow, and sometimes...

‘What the leader says, goes’
Raphael Vassallo

Just consider how utterly dependent the Labour Party has now become on the identity of Joseph Muscat, to even have an identity of its own

Just consider how utterly dependent the Labour Party has...

The first law of holes
Michael Falzon

There has never been a really healthy open PN leadership contest since Eddie Fenech Adami’s in 1977... there was then no PN establishment putting...

There has never been a really healthy open PN leadership...

Wanted: Strong lobby for domestic violence victims
Josanne Cassar

If the Labour government wants to be a truly left-wing, socialist government...

If the Labour government wants to be a truly left-wing,...

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...