Saviour Balzan's videoblog
Saviour Balzan
What is with Labour's infatuation with the developers' lobby?
Putting Church and State asunder
Ordinary citizens fully concur with the need for a separation between ecclesiastical and government affairs
Why de Marco is the best man for the job
Saviour Balzan

Mario de Marco represents the ethos of the Nationalist with more than a sensitive consideration for the liberal wing of the PN

Mario de Marco represents the ethos of the Nationalist with...

Learning how to be a minister
Evarist Bartolo

My compulsory reading at the moment is Instruction To Deliver by Michael Barber, who was appointed by then prime minister Tony Blair to lead the fight to...

My compulsory reading at the moment is Instruction To...

Curiouser and curiouser
Michael Falzon

As a good dentist, Farrugia must have heard of the Italian proverb, ‘La lingua batte dove il dente duole’ – the tongue lashes at wherever the toothache...

As a good dentist, Farrugia must have heard of the Italian...

Family values? People’s party? Please tell me you’re joking
Raphael Vassallo

The choice facing the PN’s councillors is actually very simple. Do you want...

The choice facing the PN’s councillors is actually very...

Wanted: a real safe pair of hands

If we are to really ensure a stable economic future, government policy must be motivated by more than just the short-term interests of its own political...

If we are to really ensure a stable economic future,...

Cartoon 7 April 2013

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Cartoon 3 April 2013

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

(Not) all in the family

One sincerely hopes this is not the beginning of a whole new way of bungling political decisions.

One sincerely hopes this is not the beginning of a whole...

Keep the WAGs out of the State
Matthew Vella

Pillow talk between a minister and their spouse is acceptable enough. Should it be brought into the ministerial boardrooms?

Pillow talk between a minister and their spouse is...

TEST BLOG
Claudine Cassar

TEST BLOG

TEST BLOG

Cartoon 1 April 2013

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Facing problems, not hiding them
Evarist Bartolo

The lack of coordinated action to spread functional literacy in our society has left Malta with 36% illiteracy

The lack of coordinated action to spread functional...

Muscat’s first mistake (and no, it isn’t Franco Debono)
Raphael Vassallo

So far, two specific aspects of the new administration’s way of doing...

So far, two specific aspects of the new administration’s...

Cartoon 27 March 2013

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

The Police Force’s ‘Gray area’

The resulting quandary over whether or not the police should be fully independent from government has never been fully resolved.

The resulting quandary over whether or not the police...

Why the Commissioner of Police must go
Saviour Balzan

The diabolical decision to push for John Dalli’s arraignment was also one way of deviating public attention from the Franco Debono vote of no confidence in...

The diabolical decision to push for John Dalli’s...

Shooting the Second Republic in the foot
James Debono

If there was one appointment which should have been done through consensus with the opposition, it was that of coordinator of the constitutional convention...

If there was one appointment which should have been done...

SOS: language teaching in schools
Evarist Bartolo

We should embrace and implement the proposals of the EU Commission for Language Learning at pre-primary school level.

We should embrace and implement the proposals of the EU...