Making room for Maltese artists
If the Maltese Central Bank as well as Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti are so genuinely concerned with promoting the Maltese heritage they should have promoted the Maltese artists...
After ISIS, proxy wars in Syria loom large
Matthew Bugeja
Syria is now an arena for proxy conflict between the West, Russia, and Middle Eastern rivals. It’s no longer a civil war – it’s a failed state which acts as a...
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...

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...