The year in pop culture

Josanne Cassar

The big butt, the ice bucket, and "ok siehbi" - if you have lost out on 2014's major happenings, this digest will set you straight

Cartoon: 28 December 2014

Raphael Vassallo

It is now about the recognition that ‘the game’ has in fact been lost by all parties concerned, and the rules need to be redevised from scratch.

It is now about the recognition that ‘the game’...

Frank Psaila

The Maltese Catholic Church has a leadership crisis. We have a defunct church

The Maltese Catholic Church has a leadership crisis. We...

Josanne Cassar

This year, however, I’ve noticed that the atmosphere is more relaxed than usual, and even when there is a story which seems to have grabbed the...

This year, however, I’ve noticed that the atmosphere...

Even as the Nationalist and Labour parties spent years arguing over their respective plans to ‘rescue’ the State energy corporation, both were...

Even as the Nationalist and Labour parties spent years...

If the parties have lost their soul, the people have not

Saviour Balzan

Ideology is not dead, it is the parties that want it dead – the people...

Ideology is not dead, it is the parties that want it dead...

James Debono

Bishop Scicluna’s assertion that the decriminalisation of drugs benefits barons misses the issue at stake, that it is bad social policy to turn sick...

Bishop Scicluna’s assertion that the...

The law precludes reactivation of a registered partnership

Malcolm Mifsud

On June 17, 2014 the First Hall of the Civil Court held that the court is...

On June 17, 2014 the First Hall of the Civil Court held...

George M. Mangion

Governments in Europe have willingly allocated funds to farms through schemes to assist farmers in renovating their properties to become a suitable habitation...

Governments in Europe have willingly allocated funds to...

Raphael Vassallo

I have watched it at least three times – seriously, the music is that good – and I have yet to come across any information that wasn’t 100%...

I have watched it at least three times – seriously,...

While one welcomes the fact that a call for expressions of interest has been issued this time round, one cannot but express concern about the fact that the...

While one welcomes the fact that a call for expressions of...

Evarist Bartolo

Young people who leave school early are at a higher risk of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion.

Young people who leave school early are at a higher risk of...

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Josanne Cassar

As has been rightly pointed out elsewhere, the single greatest barrier to integration remains fear… and the unknown is the primary case for fear in any...

As has been rightly pointed out elsewhere, the single...

Cannabis and common sense? That’ll be the day…

Raphael Vassallo

The Justice Reform Commission has strongly hinted that some form of...

The Justice Reform Commission has strongly hinted that some...

Josanne Cassar

There is a world of difference between criticism or satire of someone’s work, statements and behaviour in a public role and trying to tear that person...

There is a world of difference between criticism or satire...

Arnold Cassola

Smuggling from Libya is perhaps one of the few instances where phone tapping by the Maltese Secret Service could be justified

Smuggling from Libya is perhaps one of the few...

By Charles Xuereb