Mercury Rising: Artwashing through real estate | Gabriel Zammit
Reputation laundering via cultural projects is not a new move for Portelli. He has had himself painted into a festa banner as St John the Evangelist in Nadur and bought the...
Timeline of a scandal
Michael Falzon
But apart from what happened, I think there is a procedural issue: Can the Standards in Public Life Committee of the current legislature take action about a breach that happened...
Some call it ‘populism’, I call it ‘democracy’
Raphael Vassallo

If democracy looks like 10-pin bowling, it’s because that’s how it...

If democracy looks like 10-pin bowling, it’s because...

Living the good life…with other people’s money
Josanne Cassar

Businessmen allowed to amass enormous debts in tax and VAT while simultaneously...

Businessmen allowed to amass enormous debts in tax and VAT...

Diversity inside Language Council increases oversight
Mark Camilleri

The reforms to the Language Council will ensure that the Council does not fall...

The reforms to the Language Council will ensure that the...

In a bit of a shambles
Evarist Bartolo

The changes weren’t secret. I’ve answered many parliamentary questions detailing everything and we have explained the changes numerous times

The changes weren’t secret. I’ve answered many...

Who’s really in a ‘state of illegality here’
Raphael Vassallo

The naked truth of the matter is that we only apply the ‘illegal...

The naked truth of the matter is that we only apply the...

Jobs plus indeed!
Michael Falzon

Unfortunately organisations like trade unions, as well as NGOs, tend to abandon their mission statement when their income no longer depends on the...

Unfortunately organisations like trade unions, as well as...

The widening divide between the haves and the have-nots
Josanne Cassar

Maltese tenants and foreign nationals on an average wage are being edged out of...

Maltese tenants and foreign nationals on an average wage...

Just another Sunday
Saviour Balzan

They should dig deep in the Ciliberti allegations, and Bartolo should stop to think whether he can defend his position by keeping his permanent secretary, or...

They should dig deep in the Ciliberti allegations, and...

How did we come to this, exactly?
Raphael Vassallo

Not in my wildest dreams did I ever expect to hear such arguments from the leader of Malta’s political Left

Not in my wildest dreams did I ever expect to hear such...

Fiddling with the system is a way of life
Josanne Cassar

It is bad enough for a childcare centre to screw the taxpayer out of money, but...

It is bad enough for a childcare centre to screw the...

A fish and a monkey enter a classroom
Evarist Bartolo

Different children are asked to sit down for the same lesson and examination, then they aare branded disobedient when they become frustrated and act out during...

Different children are asked to sit down for the same...

A vote of confidence

The proposed measures for retailers are testament to our over-riding economic policy which is driven by the nurturing of talent, the accelerated growth of...

The proposed measures for retailers are testament to our...

‘Every vote counts’, my foot
Raphael Vassallo

Don’t bother knocking on my door come election time before you reform this rotten system into something that actually resembles a functional...

Don’t bother knocking on my door come election time...

It must be the Byzantines!
Michael Falzon

The Byzantines came and left so many years ago but their guile seems to have lingered all these years

The Byzantines came and left so many years ago but...

The underdog
Saviour Balzan

Many of those who still run the institutions have not been removed not because of some ‘taghna lkoll’ diktat, but simply because the term in...

Many of those who still run the institutions have not been...

Water off a duck’s back
Josanne Cassar

It is a sad state of affairs that so many people feel that as long as they have money in their pockets, they are willing to close an eye to governmental...

It is a sad state of affairs that so many people feel that...

Will history absolve Fidel Castro?
James Debono

Fidel represented all the great hopes and disappointments of the left in the 20th century, an inspiration for those striving for a better world,...

Fidel represented all the great hopes and...

Fidel Castro (1926-2016): Charismatic revolutionary leader who defied the odds
Peter Mayo

Academic Peter Mayo's obituary on the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution and the legacy of el jefe máximo

Academic Peter Mayo's obituary on the leader of the...