[WATCH] 25 years of MaltaToday
Saviour Balzan
MaltaToday started being published on this day, 25 years ago. It started off as a weekly newspaper published on a Friday. Saviour Balzan reminisces about a quarter of a century of...
Mercury in retrograde: Social mobility through real estate | Gabriel Zammit
Mercury is thus the ultimate indictment of our society’s collective dreams – social and financial mobility through real estate, at any cost
Malta is the target here, not Muscat
Raphael Vassallo

When Nationalist MEPs encourage their European partners to ‘get tough’ with Malta over tax evasion is to assist in the dismantling of a favourable...

When Nationalist MEPs encourage their European partners to...

Reinventing the PN
Michael Falzon

The negativity of the forces behind the throne at the PN locked it in a position in which it only bothered with attacking the Muscat government with corruption...

The negativity of the forces behind the throne at the PN...

You’re so fake
Josanne Cassar

The media has become more lazy, by sourcing its stories from Facebook without any context and journalists who never leave their desk and don’t know what...

The media has become more lazy, by sourcing its stories...

Saying it as it is: Part III
Saviour Balzan

Those who are thinking that Forza Nazzjonali is here to stay should realise that the PN is getting ready for the night of the long knives

Those who are thinking that Forza Nazzjonali is here to...

[WATCH] Minor matters, lasting impression
Saviour Balzan

What might appear to be minor can still have a huge impact on people’s...

What might appear to be minor can still have a huge impact...

Unions can ramp up pressure on May
The Conversation

Despite a clear surge in support, unions now face the prospect of a weakened Conservative party, aided by the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Despite a clear surge in support, unions now face the...

‘I’m going to tell on you’
Josanne Cassar

The way forward for our country is not going to be achieved by this “I’m going to tell on you at the EU” approach. We desperately need real...

The way forward for our country is not going to be achieved...

How to destroy a political party
Raphael Vassallo

If this is the way the PN intends to reinvent itself after its colossal June 2017 drubbing... in all honesty, it may as well just disband from now

If this is the way the PN intends to reinvent itself after...

On changing the PN, tread carefully
Manuel Delia

Manuel Delia has seen 15 years of political action up close. Now, the man ‘who messed up the buses’ says it is time for the PN to rebuild the...

Manuel Delia has seen 15 years of political action up...

Behind Muscat’s victory – winning people’s hearts
Paul A. Bartolo

Professor of psychology Paul A. Bartolo explains that Muscat’s landslide...

Professor of psychology Paul A. Bartolo explains that...

Campaign strategy? What strategy?
Raphael Vassallo

The PN seemed to seriously think that attacking Joseph Muscat, on its own, would somehow magically translate into support for their own party

The PN seemed to seriously think that attacking Joseph...

The dark side of the PN
Michael Falzon

It was no surprise, therefore, that the party machine would do its utmost to trip Claudio Grech by plotting his ‘downfall’: his not being...

It was no surprise, therefore, that the party machine would...

What we learnt from this election
Josanne Cassar

The Xarabank debate between Muscat and Busuttil will go down in history as one of the worst examples of political debates I have ever seen

The Xarabank debate between Muscat and Busuttil will go...

Lighting a flame
Saviour Balzan

The PN needs to kick start the process of seeing what it should stand for. Failure to do so will render it irrelevant

The PN needs to kick start the process of seeing what it...

Franco Debono for PN leader? Excellent idea!
Raphael Vassallo

What the PN needs now are good ideas. And Franco Debono is literally swimming...

What the PN needs now are good ideas. And Franco Debono is...

How social media skewed an election campaign
Josanne Cassar

 On the eve of the election people were receiving warning messages and...

 On the eve of the election people were receiving...

Heal the divide
Raphael Vassallo

I would like to think it is not beyond our collective capabilities to come together and thrash out this national, endemic problem of ours. But we do have to...

I would like to think it is not beyond our collective...

Saying it as it is: Part 2
Saviour Balzan

In this great charade, anybody who questioned the veracity of these stories was called a Joseph Muscat ass licker or a stooge of the State. No one was...

In this great charade, anybody who questioned the veracity...