A geriatric for a US president
Michael Falzon
Pity the serious US voter if the campaign centres on the verbal slips of the two candidates! A geriatric race is on
Europe’s latest magic trick: turning farmers into villains…
Raphael Vassallo
Like a classic Panto villain (and in season, too!) an army of ‘evil, greedy European farmers’ comes crawling out of the woodwork, to thwart all the EU’s honest,...
So, what do we really, really want?
Josanne Cassar

What does anyone in Government have to gain by threatening musicians in such a way?  With all eyes scrutinising every step Muscat makes in how he is...

What does anyone in Government have to gain by threatening...

‘Two-thirds majority proposal’ will not work
Raphael Vassallo

The idea to appoint police commissioner and attorney general by two-thirds...

The idea to appoint police commissioner and attorney...

On Catalonia, the use and abuse of history
Carmel Vassallo

Like all texts which have to accommodate often conflicting interests, the...

Like all texts which have to accommodate often conflicting...

Teachers deserve much better
Evarist Bartolo

Schools are often the 'melting pot of society', that face the wrath of a culmination of societal issues...

Schools are often the 'melting pot of society',...

People don’t have opinions, they have parties
Michael Falzon

People have a difficulty in understanding the implications of the word...

People have a difficulty in understanding the implications...

If you want to ‘Occupy Castille’... win an election
Raphael Vassallo

Taken literally, 'Occupy Castille' is a rallying cry to overthrow a...

Taken literally, 'Occupy Castille' is a rallying...

Freedom to offend? Tony tests the waters
Josanne Cassar

You see, that’s the thing with free speech; it’s a two way street even when the tune being played does not sit well with your own music score

You see, that’s the thing with free speech;...

What matters counts
Saviour Balzan

Beyond Daphne, the sad truth is that there are few veteran journalists working with independent houses who have not been pushed into a corner and reduced to...

Beyond Daphne, the sad truth is that there are few veteran...

This will never end
Josanne Cassar

A call for unity does not translate into standing behind the Government 'even when it fails us, and even when it is wrong'

A call for unity does not translate into standing behind...

The ‘universe Daphne created’
Raphael Vassallo

We must acknowledge that Daphne Caruana Galizia's writing increasingly came to echo an underlying malaise we all know to be true, yet rarely confront:...

We must acknowledge that Daphne Caruana...

Politicians cannot reopen old wounds
Alex Sciberras

We need our leaders not just to find the solution to our ills, but to also remind us of our humanity and compassion at times of collective grief and crisis

We need our leaders not just to find the solution to our...

Our faith in the institutions
Malcolm Mifsud

The fact there is so much mistrust in the institutions has turned into the Prime Minister’s main headache. Calling for us to unite behind them, when he...

The fact there is so much mistrust in the institutions has...

Upholding human decency
Evarist Bartolo

This is not about just one journalist, it’s an affront to the liberties and freedoms we all hold dear, as long as we are not selective in our definition...

This is not about just one journalist, it’s an...

Malta isn’t working
Frank Psaila

They called her the ‘hate blogger’. Others wanted her dead. Politicians, across the political divides, despised her

They called her the ‘hate blogger’. Others...

No bombs can condition democracy
Mark Camilleri

Most of us never imagined that Caruana Galizia, or any other journalist or writer, would ever have been executed

Most of us never imagined that Caruana Galizia, or any...

Why I am flummoxed
Michael Falzon

I have never felt so flummoxed, so sad and as sorry for my country as I have felt these last few days

I have never felt so flummoxed, so sad and as sorry for my...

Controversial in life, controversial in death
Josanne Cassar

Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder was the final blow to stop her from...

Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder was the final blow to...

Where do we go from here?
Saviour Balzan

I, like so many others, was outraged by the vicious assassination. When I received the news from a police source that Daphne Caruana Galizia had been bombed, I...

I, like so many others, was outraged by the vicious...