General fatigue
In these last eight days it is hoped that some personality or event or assertion manages to liven up the debate in what is fast becoming an extremely nauseating campaign with...
Cartoon 28 February 2013
Cartoon by Mark Scicluna
Gale force politics
Saviour Balzan

If I had a vote in Sliema, I would vote for Julian Galea. A vote for mediocrity and apartheid politics.

If I had a vote in Sliema, I would vote for Julian Galea. A...

‘But for her name begins with G…’
Raphael Vassallo

OK, so Joanna Gonzi doesn’t like Labourites and neither does Julian Galea. Gee, who would have ever guessed?

OK, so Joanna Gonzi doesn’t like Labourites and neither...

Expensive puppets on a string
Evarist Bartolo

The country has for far too long been run by politicians described by Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis in The Fratricides.

The country has for far too long been run by politicians...

The quota problem
Claudine Cassar

I sometimes wonder if people who spout such nonsense actually stop to think about what they are saying. Their opinion of women must be really low...

I sometimes wonder if people who spout such nonsense...

Enemalta: The sick man of Malta
Michael Falzon

The government publicly ridiculed Labour's promises to reduce water and energy tariffs.

The government publicly ridiculed Labour's promises to...

Ignore at your own peril

And as if on cue, certain sections of the media were quick to suggest that the abnormally low level of interest in this election may be attributable precisely...

And as if on cue, certain sections of the media were quick...

St Paul's Bay: My home town, my story
Carmen Sammut

Today's political analysts would describe the conservative traditional village of my childhood as 'deep blue'. But this blue became now paler and paler.

Today's political analysts would describe the conservative...

St Paul's Bay: My home town, my story
Carmen Sammut

I sit in my room in Nablus, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It is the first day of a long weekend thanks to a public holiday celebrating Women's Day....

I sit in my room in Nablus, in the Occupied Palestinian...

It’s Women’s Day! Needlework, anyone?
Caroline Muscat

We cannot address gender inequality without examining the culture, belief...

We cannot address gender inequality without examining the...

Councils that truly serve residents
Michael Briguglio

Alternattiva Demokratika's policies go beyond partisan pique, and AD councillors have always worked for resident's interests first and foremost.

Alternattiva Demokratika's policies go beyond partisan...

Vive la revolution!
Raphael Vassallo

Tonio Fenech now appears to acknowledge his government was economically (if not also socially) irresponsible to raise those tariffs the way it did.

Tonio Fenech now appears to acknowledge his government was...

Saviour Balzan's videoblog
Saviour Balzan

MediaToday Managing Editor Saviour Balzan on how the PN and the PL accuse each other of wrongdoings but then fail to shoulder responsibility for their own...

MediaToday Managing Editor Saviour Balzan on how the PN and...

Attenti al lupo
Saviour Balzan

Politicians of all colours and hues imagine that we have short memories. But we do not.

Politicians of all colours and hues imagine that we have...

Close to me
Raphael Vassallo

Oh dear. It must be getting to ‘that time of year’ again. You know, the time when not even Paris Hilton can realistically handle any further penetration of...

Oh dear. It must be getting to ‘that time of year’...

Dishonest politics at its best
Evarist Bartolo

Government does not have money to help vulnerable people yet it still finds money to pay consultants €6,000 a month, build a bridge to nowhere costing €3...

Government does not have money to help vulnerable people...

Stipends and blood diamonds
Claudine Cassar

If bribing young people with cash hand-outs is what it takes, then so be it. What I do have a problem with is the fact that government cannot afford these...

If bribing young people with cash hand-outs is what it...

Vote for merit and competence

There is much tweaking that needs to be done for the councils to become a model civic society.

There is much tweaking that needs to be done for the...

PN and civil society: a relationship of convenience
Carmen Sammut

Very often government and a chorus of media supporters have portrayed critical...

Very often government and a chorus of media supporters have...