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In this week’s Il-Punt, Saviour Balzan argues that defending freedom of expression also means allowing journalists to do their job, without coming under fire when the...

Consequences of garnishee orders

I believe that everything in life has its limitations, but once an individual decides to abuse these limitations or doesn’t know where or what its limits are, then the...

Saviour Balzan

It has always been the practice with politicians to shoot the messenger and forget about the message. And perhaps it has always been difficult for me and other...

It has always been the practice with politicians to shoot...

Strong men don’t have to put women down to feel powerful

Josanne Cassar

Women do not expect to walk into a pharmacy and have a mean-spirited man look...

Women do not expect to walk into a pharmacy and have a...

Educational investment, key for our economy

Evarist Bartolo

Providing the right tools for a better education is important because it...

Providing the right tools for a better education is...

Malcolm Mifsud

A full and final settlement declaration does not mean that one cannot claim the balance of a claim due

A full and final settlement declaration does not mean that...

Josanne Cassar

We can just about hold it together to discuss the 1960s, but the closer we verge towards the 70s and the Mintoff years, the more people lose their heads

We can just about hold it together to discuss the 1960s,...

Raphael Vassallo

The moment party politics touches any issue, no matter how remotely, another form of logic immediately takes the upper hand

The moment party politics touches any issue, no matter how...

It is a common tactic to respond to politically turbulent press stories by simply attacking or undermining the medium that printed them

It is a common tactic to respond to politically...

Michael Falzon

What was once considered as a good anti-Imperialist policy no longer holds water in this day and age

What was once considered as a good anti-Imperialist policy...

Mosques shouldn’t become an ideological battleground

Frank Psaila

Respect for secular values is not an excuse to deny the local Muslim...

Respect for secular values is not an excuse to deny...

The compromise on the morning after pill may be convenient for a political class that doesn’t seem interested in the plight of the people affected...

The compromise on the morning after pill may be...

You think today’s traffic is bad? Just you wait...

Raphael Vassallo

All governments have embarked on a foolish, uncontrolled and unplanned...

All governments have embarked on a foolish, uncontrolled...

Saviour Balzan

Journalists might not be the ones to change the world, but our job is to publish the truth

Journalists might not be the ones to change the world, but...

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If we are going to allow doctors to be the morality police over women’s sexuality then we are no better than any other country which tries to control its...

If we are going to allow doctors to be the morality police...

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What is clear does not need any interpretation

Malcolm Mifsud

The change of President takes place every five years and ‘an exceptional...

The change of President takes place every five years and...

The Prime Minister is right to hold out for a deal which is more beneficial for Air Malta, especially if the Alitalia agreement would have reduced Air Malta to...

The Prime Minister is right to hold out for a deal which is...

Raphael Vassallo

Leo Brincat is hardly the only example of a player awarded victory in this way ...

Leo Brincat is hardly the only example of a player awarded...

Going ga-ga in education: what are we doing to little kids?

Josanne Cassar

From totalitarian lunch lists, to no-touching policies forbidding to help...

From totalitarian lunch lists, to no-touching policies...