A budget for all
Miriam Dalli
These savings on energy bills directly impact households' financial well-being, allowing them to allocate resources to other expenses like food, housing, and education and...
What on earth happened to Malta’s plan to ‘fully electrify urban traffic’ by 2050?
Raphael Vassallo
According to the latest National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory for Malta 2013, road transport currently accounts for 16.9% of the total greenhouse gas emissions generated in...
You can’t take our freedom, but you can make us want it less
Raphael Vassallo

‘Freedom’ of the national, self-determination variety is no longer...

‘Freedom’ of the national, self-determination...

Give me a break
Josanne Cassar

A Facebook rant-filled week is guaranteed once again with more of the usual traffic mayhem until everyone settles back into their scholastic routine. 

A Facebook rant-filled week is guaranteed once again with...

Did somebody say corruption?
Saviour Balzan

The truth is that civil servants and other appointees in the departments that dealt with residence permits have been replicating what their peers have been...

The truth is that civil servants and other appointees in...

In support of the bus strike
James Debono

How would you expect a driver who is not even allowed a 30 minutes break after six hours of driving to provide a service with a smile?  

How would you expect a driver who is not even allowed a 30...

Contrariwise…
Raphael Vassallo

All these years later, Alice gets drawn into a world she will surely find familiar: the ‘contrariwise’ world of Malta’s increasingly neurotic...

All these years later, Alice gets drawn into a world she...

Needed: A coordinated response to a global crisis
Frank Psaila

Merkel’s unilateral decision to throw her doors wide open, and then...

Merkel’s unilateral decision to throw her doors wide...

Working for work
Evarist Bartolo

Productive and decent employment is the most important source of income security. 

Productive and decent employment is the most important...

As ‘honest’ as a football hooligan…
Raphael Vassallo

Other countries would pay good money for a display of that sort of outrageous...

Other countries would pay good money for a display of that...

Offside on De Valette
Matthew Vella

Was the Monti relocation ‘mediocre’ because it’s easy to lay it at Labour’s stinky feet? Or does the PN get to do what it likes because...

Was the Monti relocation ‘mediocre’ because...

Making way for new blood
Josanne Cassar

It is very easy to empathize with someone who feel his days as a professional are not “over” and that he has a lot more to give. This enthusiasm,...

It is very easy to empathize with someone who feel his days...

What if it was the other JC?
Raphael Vassallo

We’re not just talking smutty tabloids with a predilection for tits, asses and wildly exaggerated headlines. Last I looked, The Telegraph in particular...

We’re not just talking smutty tabloids with a...

Migration, belatedly on top of the EU agenda
Leo Brincat

The Valletta Summit is important because in a true sense of shared...

The Valletta Summit is important because in a true sense of...

Compassion is no insurance policy
Jurgen Balzan

The outrage at the death of asylum seekers attempting to reach Europe by boat from Libya disappears as soon as the cameras at the extraordinary summits in...

The outrage at the death of asylum seekers attempting to...

Learning how to handle money
Evarist Bartolo

We need to help our children distinguish between needs and wants and then to graduate to budgeting income and expenditure

We need to help our children distinguish between needs and...

It’s doom alone that counts
Raphael Vassallo

It may be too early to draw similar conclusions about the introduction of civil unions: but again, the thrust of the scaremongering was all along about the...

It may be too early to draw similar conclusions about the...

Simon panders to business. At what cost?
James Debono

Politically, Busuttil is making some wrong assumptions about his own electorate. He apes Muscat’s pre-2013 populism when voters expect him to be a voice...

Politically, Busuttil is making some wrong assumptions...

Against the moral blackmail
Matthew Vella

Pro-lifers tend to be gung-ho about their sanctimonious banging. They are shouting bloody murder at the top of their voices and drowning out the real human...

Pro-lifers tend to be gung-ho about their sanctimonious...

Whatever happened to honour thy mother and father?
Josanne Cassar

Government needs to tread very carefully on its Bill to protect the elderly...

Government needs to tread very carefully on its Bill to...