Let there be Labour and PN…
Raphael Vassallo
The PN and Labour responded to the threat of a new political party in exactly the same way - it’s not a threat to themselves, naturally, but a threat to...
Cartoon: 30 March 2016
Is Malta well geared for eco tourism?
Leo Brincat

A walk through a rainforest elsewhere is not eco tourism unless that particular walk somehow benefits the environment and the people who live there.

A walk through a rainforest elsewhere is not eco tourism...

What could we do with €11 million?

By Nationalist MEP Roberta Metsola and and shadow environment and transport minister Marthese Portelli

By Nationalist MEP Roberta Metsola and and shadow...

Malta’s secret weapon
Evarist Bartolo

The community has an important role to play in the promotion of bilingualism as the home and early years settings are influenced by what happens within it

The community has an important role to play in the...

Cartoon: 8 November 2015

Reflections on the vanities at Castille square...

Reflections on the vanities at Castille square...

The honourable thing

While credit is due for bowing out with grace, it would be a mistake to extend the ‘honourable’ accolade also to the behaviour which warranted...

While credit is due for bowing out with grace, it would be...

Conflict? What conflict?
Michael Falzon

What I find most intriguing is that the story about the irregular GWU leases did not raise too many eyebrows while the revelations of former PN Minister Joe...

What I find most intriguing is that the story about the...

Is it a bird? A plane? Well, that depends…
Raphael Vassallo

Exactly how any of this is supposed to inspire confidence in the Public...

Exactly how any of this is supposed to inspire confidence...

Letters: 8 November 2015
Look at all the lonely people
Josanne Cassar

The very thought of being reduced to a solitary life when one grows old is heartbreaking, but it is not simply restricted to the elderly.

The very thought of being reduced to a solitary life when...

Simon Busuttil replies on Shell settlement statements

This right of reply is accorded to PN leader Simon Busuttil in reference to the...

This right of reply is accorded to PN leader Simon Busuttil...

[WATCH] Saviour Balzan’s videoblog: After the PAC
Saviour Balzan

On Thursday I testified in the Public Accounts Committee. The Commissioner of...

On Thursday I testified in the Public Accounts Committee....

More sex during South Africa’s World Cup meant more boys nine months on
The Conversation

Nine months after South Africa hosted the 2010 football World Cup a disproportionately higher number of male babies were born compared with the previous eight...

Nine months after South Africa hosted the 2010 football...

Court allows corrections of taxed bill although it had been paid
Malcolm Mifsud

The difference in the taxed bill was substantial and it would not have been...

The difference in the taxed bill was substantial and it...

A paradigm shift for politics

This spate of high-level resignations already indicated a profound paradigm shift in Malta’s political landscape: which had formerly been characterised...

This spate of high-level resignations already indicated a...

Healthcare for the 21st century

By Chris Fearne

By Chris Fearne

Last man standing
Raphael Vassallo

There is a war of attrition going on here: an eye for an eye, and a member of parliament for a member of parliament. But the analogy goes well beyond the most...

There is a war of attrition going on here: an eye for an...

Cartoon: 4 November 2015

Joe Cassar's resignation sends a few shockwaves another way...

Joe Cassar's resignation sends a few shockwaves another...

Labour’s sun sets with Muscat
Mark Anthony Sammut

Is it not ironic that Joseph Muscat is more worried about salami and sausages, than about those carcinogenic issues his government should be tackling: traffic,...

Is it not ironic that Joseph Muscat is more worried about...