Abortion and choice: a personal view

Isabel Stabile

Each of us can hold a pro-choice position but be personally anti-abortion for themselves

Lip-service on climate is just a waste of time

Saviour Balzan

You cannot confront the climate crisis if your playbook back home is positivist economic growth, leaving wages unable to keep up with the country’s rising property...

Self-cleaning Blue Lagoon? The Ġaħan-army might save us from climate change

The Skinny | No 149 – The Self-Cleaning Blue Lagoon

Michael Falzon

Forn the EU, choosing between Putin and Aliyev is an exercise in opting for the lesser evil. No kudos for Muscat or Malta, surely

Forn the EU, choosing between Putin and Aliyev is an...

Raphael Vassallo

Let’s face it: you can’t not at least ‘appreciate’ that sort of ballsy, in-your-face, cockiness… not to mention the sheer,...

Let’s face it: you can’t not at least...

Saviour Balzan

When the recession emerges with a vengeance, rest assured that the rich and well-off will be the biggest moaners... and the least affected

When the recession emerges with a vengeance, rest assured...

Escalating violence and Malta’s changing demographic: perception or fact?

Josanne Cassar

Rather than a laidback, slow-paced island, the country has turned into a sprawling metropolis where one town and village spills over into the next and...

Rather than a laidback, slow-paced island, the country has...

While Joseph Muscat is justified in saying that this agreement shows that he was no pariah in seeking energy cooperation with an autocratic regime, he is also...

While Joseph Muscat is justified in saying that this...

Tacit resolutive condition may dissolve agreement only in grave circumstances

Malcolm Mifsud

The Court will dissolve an agreement containing a tacit resolutive condition when there are grave reasons substantiating the claim

The Court will dissolve an agreement containing a tacit...

I laughed when the festa was blocked by the al fresco tables. Sue me

The Skinny | No 148 – Summer fun in Malta & Gozo

How much of Malta has to burn to ashes, before we start taking climate change seriously?

Raphael Vassallo

So instead of ‘doing their bit’, by trying to be as hydrologically ‘self-sufficient’ as possible… these new developments only...

So instead of ‘doing their bit’, by trying to...

Renee Laiviera

Sustainable peace can only be achieved through women’s economic and political empowerment, alongside their involvement in decision-making processes

Sustainable peace can only be achieved through...

The right to health for people who use drugs | Karen Mamo

Employed as a double-edged sword by actors representing the interests of...

Employed as a double-edged sword by actors representing the...

In short, a Prime Minister is neither a salesman, nor a monarch; but a servant of the people. At moments, Robert Abela seems to forget this crucial fact

In short, a Prime Minister is neither a salesman, nor a...

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But the best part of all is that – judging by his own reaction – Jason Azzopardi still doesn’t understand that this is precisely WHY both he,...

But the best part of all is that – judging by his own...

Michael Falzon

Government should embark on a consultation exercise in its search to find yet another economic model that considers our population density as the main...

Government should embark on a consultation exercise in its...

Let’s stop giving ‘bad boys’ a free pass

Josanne Cassar

While it might sound like young athletes are being treated like precious...

While it might sound like young athletes are being treated...

Saviour Balzan

Abela’s rebuffed and discarded militants, aides and colleagues – though they might not be very vocal now – could someday return to haunt him...

Abela’s rebuffed and discarded militants, aides and...

It is manifestly useless to simply stamp our feet, and demand a faster and more efficient justice system... unless we are also willing to put our money where...

It is manifestly useless to simply stamp our feet, and...

Hare-brained platitudes blowing up in a politician’s face will never not be funny

The Skinny | No 147 – The Capital’s Punishments