Setting the agenda
Michael Falzon
The PN managing to snatch the initiative from Labour and winning the ‘agenda war’ is a serious setback for Joseph Muscat
Slogans and hard facts
PL candidate Robert Abela writes: The Nationalist Party itself has rendered meaningless and hollow its electoral battle cry 'Jien Naghzel Malta'
Disintegrating the integrated | A joint editorial by MaltaToday, Times of Malta, the Malta Independent

A government policy designed to break people into submission or destitution, pushing people to live in a state of limbo, is nothing short of inhuman and...

A government policy designed to break people into...

Teaching controversial issues in Ethics education
Lucianne Zammit

An important skill that one should possess in the 21st century is that of media...

An important skill that one should possess in the 21st...

Democracy and Brexit
Peter Apap Bologna

If democracy is taken to mean that the interests of all the people should be protected by the elected government, then it is hardly democratic for a simple...

If democracy is taken to mean that the interests of all the...

Education must be enriching
Evarist Bartolo

We must align education with social economic policies. Learning for life and learning for employability go together

We must align education with social economic policies....

The Holocaust is political evil. Abortion is a difficult personal choice
James Debono

Tonio Fenech is historically insensitive when he compares the evil of an ideologically planned genocide with the difficult personal choices of women

Tonio Fenech is historically insensitive when he...

The proof of the (environmental) pudding

If the Nationalist Party is elected and betrays any of its pledges, it will have given civil society plenty of rope to hang it with it

If the Nationalist Party is elected and betrays any of its...

Anger is an energy
Raphael Vassallo

We are living at a time when everyone and his sausage dog feels automatically entitled to speak on behalf of the entire country

We are living at a time when everyone and his sausage dog...

Crime and punishment
Michael Falzon

Maltese historians who have started delving into the records to see how Malta was handled by Westminster are all astonished at the arrogant and dismissive way...

Maltese historians who have started delving into the...

Police? I’d like to report a camera and microphone
Josanne Cassar

What is surprising in all this is that I never expected this kind of...

What is surprising in all this is that I never expected...

Yellow, gutter and fake journalism
Saviour Balzan

Liars and hate-bloggers will always exist and there is little we can do about them; but politics cannot be created out of gossip and hatred, it must be borne...

Liars and hate-bloggers will always exist and there is...

Cartoon: 29 January 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

[WATCH] Saviour Balzan's video blog
Saviour Balzan

In this week's il-Punt, Saviour Balzan talks about the migration crisis and how citizens look at refugees, whilst the second part focuses on politicians,...

In this week's il-Punt, Saviour Balzan talks about the...

Civil courts are competent to decide on all civil matters
Malcolm Mifsud

A Court has held that the First Hall of the Civil Court is competent to decide...

A Court has held that the First Hall of the Civil Court is...

Timely article on deceased estates

I was completely dumbfounded by the replies I received from the Office of the Arbiter for Financial Services and operational procedures purported to be...

I was completely dumbfounded by the replies I received from...

They are children, not criminals

Malta cannot continue to flout international citizenship laws - a review of the entire process is long overdue

Malta cannot continue to flout international citizenship...

To die, and to go we all know where...
Raphael Vassallo

Being an atheist also means stoically accepting that all this energy and eloquence – and all the other attributes we associate with ‘life’...

Being an atheist also means stoically accepting that all...

Trying to understand the Maltese Trump supporter
Josanne Cassar

I have tried to comprehend you dear Maltese Trump supporter. I have to...

I have tried to comprehend you dear Maltese Trump...

Cartoon: 25 January 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea