Beaches are meant to be ‘public domain’
While the authorities are right to clamp down on such abuses, it remains a fact that such basic rights as ‘public access to public domain sites’ are routinely being...
It won’t always be sunshine and rainbows
Evarist Bartolo
One of the first barriers to be torn down in alternative learning programmes is young people being branded as failures. We must make them believe in themselves and their abilities
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...

A coalition too far?

Iif the PN-PD coalition is elected to government, and Marlene Farrugia is the only PD MP: would she have enough leverage to stop government from dishing out...

Iif the PN-PD coalition is elected to government, and...

Are you a pessimist or an optimist?
Josanne Cassar

We are surrounded by a world where everything seems to be crumbling, and bad things happen every day, but it might be better for our own well-being in the long...

We are surrounded by a world where everything seems to be...

Make it a bit more obvious, why don’t you?
Raphael Vassallo

The rules were making voters unhappy; so the rules had to go. In all honesty, I...

The rules were making voters unhappy; so the rules had to...

Cartoon: 12 April 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

A gender quota muddle
Ingram Bondin

There is often a pervasive and toxic assumption that only women candidates are able to represent women voters

There is often a pervasive and toxic assumption that only...

Need for lifelong skills strategy
Evarist Bartolo

Rather than prepare people for specific jobs we need to prepare them for employability as we do not even know what kind of new jobs we are going to have in the...

Rather than prepare people for specific jobs we need to...

Good intentions gone bad
Frank Psaila

It was a curious mistake by the Archbishop. Good intentions are not enough. Timing matters

It was a curious mistake by the Archbishop. Good intentions...

Building our way to hell

Despite an attempted greenwash it remains a fact that both main parties are in bed with the construction industry and big businesses

Despite an attempted greenwash it remains a fact that...

Deficit myths, debunked
Michael Falzon

The real deficit was even bigger… the KMB government was drawing funds from the Posterity Fund and the real deficit would have otherwise been Lm89.4...

The real deficit was even bigger… the KMB government...

Oh ye of too much faith
Raphael Vassallo

We are expected to ‘have faith’ in an investigation that can only be inconclusive at best and highly politicised at worst

We are expected to ‘have faith’ in an...