Is Labour already fed up of governing?
Josanne Cassar
There is enough ugliness roaming around on the Internet. The only way to counter that ugliness is to ignore it, rise above it, and be better than that. So it is particularly...
Cartoon: 14 February 2016
The UAE prime minister, whose country is a collection of emirs, wants to introduce a minister for happiness - Joseph Muscat and Konrad Mizzi were attending the World Government...
Working for work
Evarist Bartolo

Productive and decent employment is the most important source of income security. 

Productive and decent employment is the most important...

Who will protect the embryo?

By Marisa Gatt, Mariella Catania, Christine Rossi, Martha Fitz

By Marisa Gatt, Mariella Catania, Christine Rossi,...

The big ‘immigrant invasion’ lie

In 2014 – a year since Italy’s Mare Nostrum rescue mission was downsized and replaced by Frontex’s Operation Triton – Malta experienced...

In 2014 – a year since Italy’s Mare Nostrum...

As ‘honest’ as a football hooligan…
Raphael Vassallo

Other countries would pay good money for a display of that sort of outrageous...

Other countries would pay good money for a display of that...

Letters: 20 September 2015
Offside on De Valette
Matthew Vella

Was the Monti relocation ‘mediocre’ because it’s easy to lay it at Labour’s stinky feet? Or does the PN get to do what it likes because...

Was the Monti relocation ‘mediocre’ because...

Making way for new blood
Josanne Cassar

It is very easy to empathize with someone who feel his days as a professional are not “over” and that he has a lot more to give. This enthusiasm,...

It is very easy to empathize with someone who feel his days...

Cartoon: 20 September 2015

David Agius slam-dunked...

David Agius slam-dunked...

What if it was the other JC?
Raphael Vassallo

We’re not just talking smutty tabloids with a predilection for tits, asses and wildly exaggerated headlines. Last I looked, The Telegraph in particular...

We’re not just talking smutty tabloids with a...

Populism on oil prices doesn’t help

Busuttil’s demands today immediately contrast with his immediate predecessor’s insistence on higher energy prices

Busuttil’s demands today immediately contrast with...

Cartoon: 16 September 2015
Migration, belatedly on top of the EU agenda
Leo Brincat

The Valletta Summit is important because in a true sense of shared...

The Valletta Summit is important because in a true sense of...

Compassion is no insurance policy
Jurgen Balzan

The outrage at the death of asylum seekers attempting to reach Europe by boat from Libya disappears as soon as the cameras at the extraordinary summits in...

The outrage at the death of asylum seekers attempting to...

Learning how to handle money
Evarist Bartolo

We need to help our children distinguish between needs and wants and then to graduate to budgeting income and expenditure

We need to help our children distinguish between needs and...

It’s doom alone that counts
Raphael Vassallo

It may be too early to draw similar conclusions about the introduction of civil unions: but again, the thrust of the scaremongering was all along about the...

It may be too early to draw similar conclusions about the...

Blurred lines between Church and State

Pope Francis’s reform has now streamlined the Ecclesiastic Annulment process by (among other things) scaling back the excessive bureaucracy that had...

Pope Francis’s reform has now streamlined the...

Simon panders to business. At what cost?
James Debono

Politically, Busuttil is making some wrong assumptions about his own electorate. He apes Muscat’s pre-2013 populism when voters expect him to be a voice...

Politically, Busuttil is making some wrong assumptions...

Against the moral blackmail
Matthew Vella

Pro-lifers tend to be gung-ho about their sanctimonious banging. They are shouting bloody murder at the top of their voices and drowning out the real human...

Pro-lifers tend to be gung-ho about their sanctimonious...