To be ineffective, or not to be effective
Former environment minister Leo Brincat’s grilling before the European parliament this week was a classic example of Maltese politicians' double life
If they’re illegal, set them free
Raphael Vassallo
A person found to be in possession of ‘illegally acquired property’ would clearly not be allowed to keep the ill-gotten good, but the Planning Authority's decision...
Labour's last, best hope is Godfrey Farrugia
Frank Psaila

Whilst his party is running away from the aspirational working classes and the...

Whilst his party is running away from the aspirational...

A crisis of morality

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s contribution to this week’s Global Forum on Corruption in London was bound to raise eyebrows locally and abroad.

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s contribution to this...

Think you're a tough guy, huh?
Raphael Vassallo

Like so many minor characters in a mobster movie, Joseph Muscat seems to think he’s ‘hard’. He is fond of imagining that he has a knack for...

Like so many minor characters in a mobster movie, Joseph...

By Jove, did that hamallu say ‘motherfucker’?
Saviour Balzan

Andrew Borg Cardona is of course free to make a fool of himself and to express...

Andrew Borg Cardona is of course free to make a fool of...

What do you mean it’s not political?
Josanne Cassar

Apart from suffering from real political fatigue, pronouncing yourself on a current topic often acts as a trigger for people to come out of the woodworks. Who...

Apart from suffering from real political fatigue,...

Cartoon: 15 May 2016

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Tax justice – it’s in our interest
Ralph Cassar

Workers and businesses prop up society by contributing their fair share of taxes, their ‘membership fee’ for being part of our society. It is time...

Workers and businesses prop up society by contributing...

Muddying the waters on Panama
James Debono

Intermediaries opening offshore companies in secretive locations have to answer for their role in an immoral global economy.  But that does not absolve...

Intermediaries opening offshore companies in secretive...

Panama goes beyond national politics

Ultimately, the Panama Papers leak is about the politics of wealth, not just about the people and companies caught with their pants down. Global tax avoidance...

Ultimately, the Panama Papers leak is about the politics of...

Same sameness, different difference …
Raphael Vassallo

Scandal wears thin as both parties are involved

Scandal wears thin as both parties are involved

Star quality: Ira’s got it
Josanne Cassar

Now that she is going to become a mother, a new womanly maturity has taken over Ira Losco, probably in the knowledge that no matter the result on Saturday, she...

Now that she is going to become a mother, a new womanly...

Books in our education system
Mark Camilleri

We must not allow to have generations of students leaving school thinking that books are the equivalent of a users’ manual to a consumerist object. Books...

We must not allow to have generations of students leaving...

Creating more jobs
Evarist Bartolo

Generating inclusive employment opportunities was highlighted in our election manifesto and statistics show that we have now made significant progress with the...

Generating inclusive employment opportunities was...

Cartoon: 11 May 2016

Malta: it plays a part in the global tax evasion as well

Malta: it plays a part in the global tax evasion as well

[WATCH] Saviour Balzan’s videoblog
Saviour Balzan

In this new video blog, Saviour Balzan once again takes a look at the court procedures in the Gozo works-for-votes case and debates the new revelations in the...

In this new video blog, Saviour Balzan once again takes a...

The charlatan threat
Michael Falzon

Guido de Marco used to converse privately with so many Labour personalities as if they were his bosom friends. Some of them were actually friends of his, I...

Guido de Marco used to converse privately with so many...

Case closed… regrettably
Raphael Vassallo

Joseph Muscat now has multiple reasons to limit his response to Panamagate to the ridiculous game of musical chairs we all witnessed last week.

Joseph Muscat now has multiple reasons to limit his...

[WATCH] Gozo works-for-votes: blatant corruption and clear abuse of power
Saviour Balzan

Ahead of another court sitting on the Gozo works-for-votes, MediaToday managing editor Saviour Balzan takes a look at the case and questions how the police...

Ahead of another court sitting on the Gozo works-for-votes,...