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When someone is told they have no hope of recovery, that they are losing the life they knew and enjoyed, their physical suffering is worsened by the emotional adjustment they must...

Yet another femicide

Michael Falzon

While the police and Appoġġ should tackle cases of harassment of women with more urgency, the underestimation of danger by the victims themselves is also a problem as it tends...

Michael Falzon

What is at stake now is the Prime Minister's own future

‘We are all just prisoners here, of our own device’

Raphael Vassallo

If it’s a second (sorry, ‘final’) referendum you all want, by...

If it’s a second (sorry, ‘final’)...

Saviour Balzan

I am not quite sure what is going on in Muscat’s mind but it must read like this: “If Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi resign now I will gain...

I am not quite sure what is going on in Muscat’s mind...

Come little children unto me… pulling a Porsche

Josanne Cassar

Doing something which goes against the grain is bad enough, but when your...

Doing something which goes against the grain is bad enough,...

Evarist Bartolo

There have never been so many people being educated and graduating

There have never been so many people being educated and...

Brexit deal agreed by British cabinet, but parliament's approval remains unlikely

The Conversation

Robin Pettitt • While May has managed to get her cabinet to support her leave deal, the underlying divisions remain.

Robin Pettitt • While May has managed to get her...

Josanne Cassar

Malta’s complete philistine indifference towards its natural habitat is an indictment on our society, which, I am sure, will come back to haunt us one day

Malta’s complete philistine indifference towards its...

Raphael Vassallo

Manfred Weber is about as qualified to present the ‘perspective of the people’, as I am to talk about the social customs of the Wada Fakawi tribe...

Manfred Weber is about as qualified to present the...

US midterm results: six issues on the country’s uncertain future

The Conversation

Scott Lucas | The most important person in America will be Robert Mueller....

Scott Lucas | The most important person in America...

Michael Falzon

Malta is the only country in the EU where abortion remains illegal, and is still a taboo subject for many. At the same time, hundreds of women leave Malta each...

Malta is the only country in the EU where abortion remains...

Affordable housing? We will just cram them in like sardines

Josanne Cassar

It would be very interesting to know how much living space Sandro Chetcuti...

It would be very interesting to know how much living space...

There is more than one way to skin a cat…

Raphael Vassallo

Muscat is as perfectly wrong to retain Mizzi and Schembri, as he is...

Muscat is as perfectly wrong to retain Mizzi and...

Can you imagine if Malta had mid-term elections?

Josanne Cassar

The results of Tuesday’s vote made me lapse into a wistful daydream. Can...

The results of Tuesday’s vote made me lapse into a...

‘Sorry, but support for your party leader is no longer available…’

Raphael Vassallo

Short of cloning Eddie Fenech Adami himself… there is simply no one in that party, or outside it, who can possibly bridge the gulf that has now opened...

Short of cloning Eddie Fenech Adami himself… there...

Doing and not just knowing, and why it matters

Evarist Bartolo

Vocational education is also an integral part of a national policy to ...

Vocational education is also an integral part of a national...

Michael Falzon

The truth is that, irrespective of the way this case was handled and resolved, such issues are tantamount to a clash between freedom of the press and the rule...

The truth is that, irrespective of the way this case was...

Raphael Vassallo

If we’re already creating robots that are highly intelligent, and experienced in the assembly and manufacture of complex mechanical devices…...

If we’re already creating robots that are highly...

Creating a culture change is only as difficult as we want it to be

Josanne Cassar

It seems to me that it is always this concept of getting something for free...

It seems to me that it is always this concept of getting...