The big sleep

It will be up to the Commissioner for Inland Revenue and the finance minister to really assure the public that a real investigation on tax avoidance will take place once the ICIJ...

Nobody’s going to hell. We’re all angry

Saviour Balzan

Panamagate is bloody wrong, and thousands upon thousands, including yours truly, simply don’t agree with the government’s handling of this affair. But let’s not...

Raphael Vassallo

Strangely, the government got involved: not to defend the tenants’ rights against an aggressive corporate takeover – as one would rightly expect,...

Strangely, the government got involved: not to defend the...

The truth is that, while the government’s attitude towards matters of governance had remained largely unchanged, there was an awakening of thirst for...

The truth is that, while the government’s attitude...

Saviour Balzan

The Mosta Speaker of the House of Representatives flagged the apparent discrepancy in mileage and fuel consumption for Simon Busuttil’s car and cried...

The Mosta Speaker of the House of Representatives flagged...

Why can’t we ever emulate the best of America, rather than the worst?

Josanne Cassar

Media infiltration means that the world in many respects has become one globalised culture which connects us, for better or for worse.

Media infiltration means that the world in many respects...

Joseph Muscat is under more pressure over his good governance record

Joseph Muscat is under more pressure over his good...

Dishing out land to Sadeen is feudal not progressive

James Debono

Dishing out public land at a discount price without even issuing a tender to...

Dishing out public land at a discount price without even...

Raphael Vassallo

Make no mistake: the list of things which are very emphatically ‘better never than late’ is almost literally endless.

Make no mistake: the list of things which are very...

Separation and divorce authorised simultaneously

Malcolm Mifsud

Either of the spouses may demand separation if, for two years or more, he or...

Either of the spouses may demand separation if, for two...

IS’s declaration of ‘war’ is in reality a euphemism for a campaign of terrorism and murder, making it a criminal organisation, entirely...

IS’s declaration of ‘war’ is in reality a...

Are we going to keep our political circus in business?

Jurgen Balzan

The political circus is in town: parliamentary debates as intellectually...

The political circus is in town: parliamentary debates as...

Simon Busuttil's good governance package is dead-legged by a Speaker's investigation into fuel allowances

Simon Busuttil's good governance package is dead-legged...

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Carmel Vassallo

It is clear that many, perhaps the majority, of first and second generation Islamic cultural background ‘settlers’ have values at variance...

It is clear that many, perhaps the majority, of first...

Will we learn from past mistakes at Paris COP21?

Leo Brincat

If this will be purely down to rhetoric or not is something that can be figured...

If this will be purely down to rhetoric or not is something...

Michael Falzon

Marlene decided to resign from the Labour Party and there was a reaction from her erstwhile colleagues.

Marlene decided to resign from the Labour Party and there...

As long ago as 2011, Commissioner Michel Barnier had flown to Malta for talks with then finance minister Tonio Fenech, over Malta’s opposition to what...

As long ago as 2011, Commissioner Michel Barnier had flown...

Raphael Vassallo

The problem with enforcing planning laws on illegal zoos, Muscat seems to be telling us, is that his government would have suddenly had a bunch of zoo...

The problem with enforcing planning laws on illegal zoos,...