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The farmers’ revolt

Mark Said

The challenges that many European farmers, not least Maltese, faced during the last decades were significant... they contended with economic hardships born out of rapidly...

Calculating the worth of a housewife

Josanne Cassar

The shocking story of a woman who was left with a piece of gauze in her abdomen following a hernia operation, which caused her endless physical pain and emotional distress when...

Saviour Balzan

There once was someone acting as assistant to Marlene Farrugia in the 2017...

There once was someone acting as assistant to Marlene...

Climate change: obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from bigger environmental challenges

The Conversation

Now is not the time to be distracted by the convenient truth of plastic pollution, as the relatively minor threats this poses are eclipsed by the global...

Now is not the time to be distracted by the convenient...

Evarist Bartolo

Striking a balance between competing demands will rarely lead to an either/or choice or even a single solution. Individuals will need to think in a more...

Striking a balance between competing demands will rarely...

The Dubaification of the construction industry

Michael Falzon

Unfortunately, this is the downside of cosmopolitan Malta – and the buck...

Unfortunately, this is the downside of cosmopolitan Malta...

Raphael Vassallo

Ah yes. The small matter of why an investigation into Malta’s tuna industry took place all those yonks ago in 2010, but was unaccountably (in all senses...

Ah yes. The small matter of why an investigation into...

Your name is your stamp of identity for life

Josanne Cassar

However, for the children themselves, this name is their ‘label’;...

However, for the children themselves, this name is their...

Saviour Balzan

The writing is on the wall… the PN needs a transplant of the soul and of the brain

The writing is on the wall… the PN needs a...

Students should be righting what is wrong, not perpetuating it

Josanne Cassar

But here, where students are paid to study and for the most part still live at...

But here, where students are paid to study and for the most...

If politicians won’t discuss policy issues… why do they even exist?

Raphael Vassallo

There is, after all, no point in choosing between different parties or candidates, if they’re all equally hellbent on keeping everything exactly as it is

There is, after all, no point in choosing between different...

Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan on the abortion debate debacle inside Alternattiva Demokratika, and the recent Cabinet meeting at Salini

Saviour Balzan on the abortion debate debacle inside...

How Malta turned the tables on the labour market

Evarist Bartolo

As our economy continues to grow we will continue being asked to answer new...

As our economy continues to grow we will continue being...

Raphael Vassallo

If the Devil really did exist… which initiative would he consider more worthwhile? Precipitating a global catastrophe costing millions of lives…...

If the Devil really did exist… which initiative...

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Many incidents can easily be avoided if school management is more efficient than it currently is

Many incidents can easily be avoided if school management...

Saviour Balzan

Now that Mina Tolu made a very sensible and moderate attempt at addressing the abortion taboo, Cassola expected AD's executive committee to disassociate...

Now that Mina Tolu made a very sensible and moderate...

Josanne Cassar

It seems to me that we want others to accept us as we are, as it suits us, but we refuse to offer them the same courtesy

It seems to me that we want others to accept us as we are,...

[WATCH] Why we need an inquiry into the Maltese tuna industry

Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan on the suspension of fisheries director Andreina Fenech Farrugia

Saviour Balzan on the suspension of fisheries director...

The difference between working to live and living to work

Josanne Cassar

The nostalgia for when most women were contented homemakers is itself a...

The nostalgia for when most women were contented homemakers...

Raphael Vassallo

Even without any incriminating transcripts, it has been patently obvious for...

Even without any incriminating transcripts, it has been...