A political stalemate
In his two-hour speech in Parliament, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat went to great lengths to discredit the Opposition leader’s economic credentials while stressing his...
Holy Budget, Batman!
Raphael Vassallo
Almost everywhere you look in the world today, what passes for ‘political debate’ is increasingly beginning to resemble the climactic final round between Rocky Balboa...
Cartoon: 13 May 2015

EU leaders get ready to search and destroy smugglers boats... war games revisited.

EU leaders get ready to search and destroy smugglers...

Needed: Arts to disrupt rigid schooling
Evarist Bartolo

Culture industries contribute around 5% of GDP and employ more than 10,000 persons… it becomes clear that art isn’t an extra but an integral part...

Culture industries contribute around 5% of GDP and employ...

Just bomb it anyway…
Raphael Vassallo

‘[Migration] is not only a humanitarian emergency, but also a security crisis, since smuggling networks are linked to, and in some cases finance,...

‘[Migration] is not only a humanitarian emergency,...

An alternative site? No need, it’s ok for MEPA
Ryan Callus

The Prime Minister’s commitment to finding an alternative site cannot be...

The Prime Minister’s commitment to finding an...

Time to move beyond political feudalism

This was the second high-level political resignation in the past year, after former Home Affairs minister Manuel Mallia was made to step down following an...

This was the second high-level political resignation in the...

The Wonderful Wizard of ODZ
Raphael Vassallo

With the simple flick of a magic wand, all that was considered awful and reprehensible when it took place under a Nationalist administration, miraculously...

With the simple flick of a magic wand, all that was...

Letters: 10 May 2015
In defence of a colleague
Saviour Balzan

What I can safely say is that the PBS newsroom under head of news Reno Bugeja is infinitely much better and more fair than it was under its previous head of...

What I can safely say is that the PBS newsroom under head...

Without active protest, our land will be given away
Josanne Cassar

It is high time to move beyond being mere keyboard activists against the...

It is high time to move beyond being mere keyboard...

Cartoon: 10 May 2015

Scuttling off Giovanna Debono - more change inside the PN.

Scuttling off Giovanna Debono - more change inside the PN.

Constitutional Court has jurisdiction to hear eviction case
Malcolm Mifsud

The First Hall of the Civil Courts in its constitutional jurisdiction held that...

The First Hall of the Civil Courts in its constitutional...

Saviour Balzan’s videoblog
Saviour Balzan

Do general elections in the United Kingdom have the same effect on personal lives as Malta's general elections?

Do general elections in the United Kingdom have the same...

New Parliament, same old charade
Raphael Vassallo

It doesn’t actually matter where you house that institution, if it’s going to carry on behaving in such a myopic and spectacularly asinine way.

It doesn’t actually matter where you house that...

Breathing relevance into the Presidency

Since becoming President of the Republic, former social policy minister Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca has certainly not allowed the position to influence her...

Since becoming President of the Republic, former social...

Cartoon: 6 May 2015

The carrot-and-stick approach for the new ODZ university...

The carrot-and-stick approach for the new ODZ university...

That last chance
Edward Mallia

During the ECJ hearings spring hunting was stopped. There were no cries of “collective punishment”; no talk on “possible legal...

During the ECJ hearings spring hunting was stopped. There...

Labour’s ‘big tent’ and the PN’s ideological identity
Frank Psaila

What the PN’s battle cry would be in 2018, is anybody’s guess...

What the PN’s battle cry would be in 2018, is...

Saviour Balzan's videoblog
Saviour Balzan

Following the arraignment of Former Gozo Minister Giovanna Debono’s husband over charges of using the ministerial budget to commission private works for...

Following the arraignment of Former Gozo Minister Giovanna...