After Panamagate: Presidentialism has failed us

James Debono

While everyone expected Labour to face this question in seven years’ time at the end of Muscat’s second legislature, it is facing the question right now

Letters: 3 April 2016

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...

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...

By Chris Fearne

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...

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

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

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...

21st century skills and learning outcomes

Evarist Bartolo

The introduction of learning outcomes pedagogy is meant to move away from the...

The introduction of learning outcomes pedagogy is meant to...

Driving etiquette can ease the traffic tension

By Jorg Sicot, Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says he has a ten-year plan for his leadership...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says he has a ten-year plan...

Clear, unequivocal rules are therefore needed to ensure that Malta’s House of Representatives does not degenerate into a marketplace for politicians and...

Clear, unequivocal rules are therefore needed to ensure...

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Michael Falzon

Keeping secret state agreements that somehow involve public financial matters should be a ‘no no’ for any government of any democratic...

Keeping secret state agreements that somehow involve public...

Embryos should be shown the same respect as children

By Suzanne Vella and members of Save The Embryo Protection Act

By Suzanne Vella and members of Save The Embryo...

Saviour Balzan

To claim that all those gifts from Gaffarena were now part of some elaborate frame-up was utterly silly and stupid.

To claim that all those gifts from Gaffarena were now part...

Josanne Cassar

It cannot be denied that there is a definite sickness at the core of our society; a sickness which has grown deeper over the years and is now so pervasive that...

It cannot be denied that there is a definite sickness at...

Raphael Vassallo

As I have often observed, just mention the frightening word ‘drugs’, and all logic and common sense immediately flies out of the window.

As I have often observed, just mention the frightening word...