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Shock in the city

Saviour Balzan

The history of the Labour Party when it comes to ex-leaders taking on newly elected leaders is very well known, and Muscat knows it. No one is bigger than the party and its...

From compassion to action: A call for change in mental health | Steve Ellul

Stress management seminars, self-care initiatives, and preventive measures emerge as essential components of a resilient and thriving community, mirroring a broader shift in the...

Josanne Cassar

The abuse of sick leave is a reality, it’s true, but it needs to be tackled head-on by dealing personally with the culprits

The abuse of sick leave is a reality, it’s true, but...

Saviour Balzan

For the past decade, this war of attrition has been waged against anyone whom the PN’s inner sanctum was at odds with

For the past decade, this war of attrition has been waged...

[WATCH] How feelings change when targets shift

Saviour Balzan

In his latest video-blog, MediaToday managing editor Saviour Balzan speaks of...

In his latest video-blog, MediaToday managing editor...

Cars do not just crash head-on for no reason

Josanne Cassar

People need to see conclusive police and traffic experts’ reports of the...

People need to see conclusive police and traffic...

Raphael Vassallo

Things we criticise or deplore today, may well become the iconic cultural reference points of the future

Things we criticise or deplore today, may well become the...

Evarist Bartolo

Regulation, people-first policies and a checks-and-balances structure has been wrongly, and misleadingly, packaged as needless bureaucracy

Regulation, people-first policies and a checks-and-balances...

Raphael Vassallo

As has happened on so many other occasions, it is the allegation that makes the story...with the ‘non-existence’ of proof dismissed as an...

As has happened on so many other occasions, it is the...

Michael Falzon

The tone of the editorials of the GWU papers has recently become saner and more acceptable to the general public

The tone of the editorials of the GWU papers has recently...

Saviour Balzan

Marlene Farrugia has just done a Nigel Farage

Dirty politics in leadership races are nothing new

Josanne Cassar

What PL leadership contenders did not have to contend with in 2008 was the ease...

What PL leadership contenders did not have to contend with...

Butlers to the cosmopolites? We’ll pay the price

Matthew Vella

Profit rules in Malta’s brave new cosmopolitan future, but we have no...

Profit rules in Malta’s brave new cosmopolitan...

Josanne Cassar

Many political pundits and observers had warned that this type of thing was inevitable, but there is no real satisfaction in saying, 'we told you so'

Many political pundits and observers had warned that this...

Evarist Bartolo

The irony of it all is that those who spew hate towards people who escape conflict and violence are among those people who cheer on the same people when they...

The irony of it all is that those who spew hate towards...

The Presidency has come to an end, but it isn’t yet over

Frank Psaila

Apart from being an opportunity to showcase our work ethic and determination,...

Apart from being an opportunity to showcase our work ethic...

Michael Falzon

Call them ‘the clique’ or ‘the political establishment of the past’ or whatever, but the people behind the PN facade are still there...

Call them ‘the clique’ or ‘the political...

Raphael Vassallo

The point is that we are now inured to a situation where to be in politics is, effectively, to be at war

The point is that we are now inured to a situation where to...

The link between Gentlemen’s Clubs and prostitution

Josanne Cassar

In 2010 Iceland banned strip clubs with the reasoning that ‘it is not...

In 2010 Iceland banned strip clubs with the reasoning that...

Saviour Balzan

I have never had time for pretenders who pose as independent journalists, but are nothing more than ambitious political animals who relish in the art of...

I have never had time for pretenders who pose as...