Wake up or lose your healthcare
Serious concerns have been raised by unions, doctors, other healthcare professionals, healthcare students, and most recently by 6th form students about the impact these...
The fight against exclusion
Evarist Bartolo
Areas with disadvantaged children have to be identified as early as possible and these areas have to be given priority and special assistance
Cardinal sin
Saviour Balzan

I must point out that all my defamation cases, like everybody else’s, are heard by the same magistrate - and this state of affairs is completely...

I must point out that all my defamation cases, like...

Deciphering Malta’s interest  in the US elections
Josanne Cassar

It is clear from those first photos with Obama, that Donald Trump is...

It is clear from those first photos with Obama, that Donald...

Cartoon: 13 November 2016

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Trump victory comes with a silver lining for the world's progressives
Yanis Varoufakis

We are at a crossroads when change is inevitable, not just possible. To ensure...

We are at a crossroads when change is inevitable, not just...

Extra works must be paid for
Malcolm Mifsud

The Court of Appeal ruled that a contractor must be paid for extra works carried out

The Court of Appeal ruled that a contractor must be paid...

How Donald Trump used the media and the 'industry of outrage' to win the US Presidency
The Conversation

In the face of the Trump onslaught and the unrestrained outpourings of the outrage industry, this has seemed insipid and inadequate. But does an ethical media...

In the face of the Trump onslaught and the unrestrained...

A vote for Trump was a despicable choice
James Debono

Call me part of the liberal elite, but a vote for a playground bully like Trump was a despicable choice that must be understood, but never condoned

Call me part of the liberal elite, but a vote for a...

Education for the real world
Evarist Bartolo

‘In the past, the appointment of a University rector was like a palace coup d’etat.’

‘In the past, the appointment of a University rector...

Insults, car bombs and ISIS
Frank Psaila

Car bombs endanger Malta’s reputation as a safe and secure country

Car bombs endanger Malta’s reputation as a safe and...

When the ‘villain’ becomes the star
Josanne Cassar

In hindsight, the more the media pushed Clinton and the more it ridiculed The Donald, the more entrenched Trump supporters became.

In hindsight, the more the media pushed Clinton and the...

Cartoon: 9 November 2016

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Barack Obama, a hard act to follow

With Obama's accomplishments having indeed changed the face of the America, he may yet prove a very tough act to follow

With Obama's accomplishments having indeed changed...

Things fall apart
Raphael Vassallo

Unless something is eventually conceded to the growing chorus of voices demanding genuine change – in the United States of America, as everywhere else...

Unless something is eventually conceded to the growing...

Expropriation can only be justified for public use

Though ostensibly presented as a project serving the national interest, the...

Though ostensibly presented as a project serving the...

The minimum wage conundrum
Michael Falzon

Increasing the minimum wage by more than the annual COLA adjustment might be seen as the panacea for social problems. I fear it is not.

Increasing the minimum wage by more than the annual COLA...

Why Paceville is Malta’s Standing Rock
Raphael Vassallo

By what stretch of mental gymnastics are we to conclude that expropriation for the sake of purely private speculative development serves anybody’s...

By what stretch of mental gymnastics are we to conclude...

It is a mad world
Saviour Balzan

In-Nazzjon missed out on a serious administrative enquiry that is currently being conducted in Luxembourg at the offices of the European Parliament’s...

In-Nazzjon missed out on a serious administrative enquiry...

Our lives played out for all to see: the future is now
Josanne Cassar

If the day comes where our past is stored digitally and can be reviewed and...

If the day comes where our past is stored digitally and can...