Rent law amendment: Socialist PR but exploitative reality | Matthew Attard
The minister, likely after much lobbying from the MDA, has decided to remove all rent-calming measures that were in law. The most impactful was the extension of the di fermo...
A brewing educational crisis?
Mark Said
The education administration is slack, possibly corrupt, and rather helpless against the student community. There are no proper checks on the functioning of the educational...
A lesson in hope
Josanne Cassar

'I only wish we had more local politicians who are not willing to compromise their values, and who are ready to be the voice of the real people, and not...

'I only wish we had more local politicians who are not...

Now for the 2019 revolution
Saviour Balzan

'The Gozo tunnel represents what is fundamentally wrong with our politicians' 

'The Gozo tunnel represents what is fundamentally wrong...

Bringing back the art of saying ‘no’ to your beloved children
Josanne Cassar

Not just because it makes for better-behaved kids, but because the rest of...

Not just because it makes for better-behaved kids, but...

The singer not the song
Michael Falzon

Do any constitutional changes provide Muscat with a future? Does he want to go down in history that, like Mintoff, he did the right thing in the end? Time will...

Do any constitutional changes provide Muscat with a future?...

The Malta Police Commissioner-for-Europe Show
Raphael Vassallo

I can only conclude that my appraisal of Lawrence Cutajar’s actual...

I can only conclude that my appraisal of Lawrence...

We need a gilet rouge  for the environment
Saviour Balzan

The Muscats of the world say the Gozo tunnel is a commitment in the manifesto....

The Muscats of the world say the Gozo tunnel is a...

About time we get our priorities right
Josanne Cassar

How does a harmless, flirtatious song between a man and a woman written 74 years ago, suddenly become date rape?

How does a harmless, flirtatious song between a man and a...

In a world with real problems, let’s stop being so easily offended
Josanne Cassar

Policies that simply tick all the progressive-sounding boxes without listening...

Policies that simply tick all the progressive-sounding...

Politicise the Presidency? No, thanks
Raphael Vassallo

My guess is that the Council of Europe simply got their files muddled up, and issued the wrong country report by mistake. They might have mixed us up with...

My guess is that the Council of Europe simply got...

That’s not pro-business
Peter Agius

As odd as it might seem to some government operators... we do have rules on public spending: the present ones were ironically revised by Labour...

As odd as it might seem to some government...

Rokit crosses genre boundaries with award-winning novel
Mark Camilleri

With Rokit, Loranne Vella distinguished herself with yet another prize-winning...

With Rokit, Loranne Vella distinguished herself with yet...

A very French, very yellow bandwagon...
Raphael Vassallo

With serious reservations about the method of engagement – I myself feel far more represented by the ‘gilets jaunes’ 25 points, than by...

With serious reservations about the method of engagement...

The Neville Gafà mystery
Michael Falzon

Gafà enjoys the trust of the Prime Minister – irrespective of so many allegations of wrongdoing. This cannot be taken lightly and should be an...

Gafà enjoys the trust of the Prime Minister –...

Admitting something is a bad  idea is the hardest job of all
Josanne Cassar

We have lived with this kind of division which splits the country right down...

We have lived with this kind of division which splits the...

Now that you mention aesthetics…
Saviour Balzan

Who would not say that Malta was thoroughly deflowered during that golden age of aestheticism when visionaries like Tonio Fenech and George Pullicino, and of...

Who would not say that Malta was thoroughly deflowered...

Caring for gifted students
Evarist Bartolo

Whilst it is our moral duty to do all we can not to let any children fall behind, it is also our duty not to hold back students from reaching their full...

Whilst it is our moral duty to do all we can not to let any...

Greenwashing our environmental policies
Josanne Cassar

Cut to the chase: the government could just admit that in its eagerness to greenwash its environmental policies, it was taken for a ride.

Cut to the chase: the government could just admit that...

‘The season of good jeer…’
Raphael Vassallo

We have one set of grumpy, Grinchy people complaining about another equally grumpy, Grinchy group placing flowers and candles at a makeshift shrine to a...

We have one set of grumpy, Grinchy people complaining about...