2025: Will AI take over your life? From self-driving buses to fake news
Alexiei Dingli
The year 2025 is not just about technology advancing – it’s about how we, as people, choose to use it. Will we let it deepen inequalities or close gaps? Will we...
A reading crisis
Mark Said
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one
Shouldn’t the ‘facts’ have come before the ‘judgment’?
Raphael Vassallo

As I write, a crowd of activists is gathering outside the European Parliament...

As I write, a crowd of activists is gathering outside the...

Be careful what you wish for
Josanne Cassar

As a result of the way Malta is being unfairly portrayed, resentment against what being in the EU means, is growing. You know, the kind of swelling resentment...

As a result of the way Malta is being unfairly portrayed,...

Comfortably numb
Saviour Balzan

I am against sharing breathing room with those who were comfortably numb when Malta was no different than it is today, with the same structures that made their...

I am against sharing breathing room with those who were...

Simple: more roads, more traffic, more pollution
Ralph Cassar

We need to reclaim our roads and squeeze a substantial number of cars off the...

We need to reclaim our roads and squeeze a substantial...

China’s time to shine
Matthew Bugeja

With a disinterested US administration, China’s power and influence will grow faster than anticipated

With a disinterested US administration, China’s power...

The poverty trap: Sometimes it is a matter of luck
Josanne Cassar

As isolation and loneliness become more important than compassion and empathy,...

As isolation and loneliness become more important than...

We’re no millennials, but we’re changing the rules of the game
Tia Reljic

Most still think the millennial are the new generation, but distinctive world...

Most still think the millennial are the new generation, but...

Schrodinger’s tax haven
Raphael Vassallo

When is a tax haven not a tax haven? The answer should be obvious: when the country concerned is rich and powerful enough to change the...

When is a tax haven not a tax haven? The answer should be...

Beyond the classroom
Evarist Bartolo

Student engagement promotes self-achievement and gives a different perspective to our children's scholastic years. Despite significant progress, we need to...

Student engagement promotes self-achievement and gives a...

What Paradise Papers tell us about business and elites
The Conversation

Ronen Palan • Practically, the entire wealth investment...

Ronen Palan • Practically, the entire wealth...

A tale of two islands
Michael Falzon

The international press has been putting Malta in a bad light ever since the Bidnija murder and the suspicion of some behind-the-scenes orchestration cannot be...

The international press has been putting Malta in a bad...

If you’re going to ‘rebel’... do it properly
Raphael Vassallo

I expected Delia's ill-conceived motion to be duly outvoted in parliament,...

I expected Delia's ill-conceived motion to be duly...

From Briguglio to Engerer, the battlescars of political enmity are on parade
Matthew Vella

The wounds on the Maltese political battlefield reveal a diseased society that basks in toxic rivalry

The wounds on the Maltese political battlefield reveal a...

Wanted: another dreamer
Saviour Balzan

'Can Muscat be left with a strong opposition? Absolutely not. I hope a dream out there is getting ready to assume the mantle that will offer a reply to the...

'Can Muscat be left with a strong opposition?...

Forget about giving thanks, let’s go straight to the sales
Josanne Cassar

‘I don’t think anyone wants to go back to the old days of austerity...

‘I don’t think anyone wants to go back to the...

Did we lose the war on drugs, or have we just surrendered?

Dr Joseph Borg Ph.D • Calling the smoking cannabis...

Dr Joseph Borg Ph.D • Calling the smoking...

Pushing the envelope towards incitement
Josanne Cassar

Malta’s problem with hostility did not just appear magically now, but building up ever since it became ‘ballsy’ to trash people online. No...

Malta’s problem with hostility did not just appear...

Since when does the EU care about ‘rule of law’?
Raphael Vassallo

In a word, it's all about money: the only thing the EU has ever...

In a word, it's all about money: the only thing the EU...