Banning e-scooters: An admission of failure | Steve Zammit Lupi
It baffles me how in four years the most popular areas did not have a single parking hub for e-scooters. How can one expect to curtail abuse if official parking was never provided?
Tone deaf with a complete lack of self-awareness
Josanne Cassar
Her supporters might say, but so what if she did? So many women go under the knife to look better, doesn’t she have the right to do so?  If she were just anyone else,...
It’s a choice we’re making…
Raphael Vassallo

Last Wednesday, the foreign ministers of the NATO countries met in Antalya, southern Turkey, to discuss strategies for dealing with Russia in the wake of the...

Last Wednesday, the foreign ministers of the NATO countries...

Plonk it here, please
Saviour Balzan

No sooner had Muscat declared his new conversion to environmentalism than he was unexpectedly but proudly celebrating the proposed building of a university...

No sooner had Muscat declared his new conversion to...

How green was my valley
Josanne Cassar

I’m finding it very difficult to hold a conversation with those who are reading from the Muscat Handbook on ‘What to Say to Those who are Against...

I’m finding it very difficult to hold a conversation...

Julian Manduca, ten years after
Saviour Balzan

What would Julian say of the state of the environment today under a Labour government? Perhaps this is the fairest question we ask ourselves today, measuring...

What would Julian say of the state of the environment today...

Saviour Balzan’s videoblog
Saviour Balzan

As opposition against development in outside development zone areas continues to increase, Saviour Balzan says Joseph Muscat should strive to find alternative...

As opposition against development in outside development...

Comparisons are odious, but sewage plants are necessary
James Debono

Better a university on outside-development zones than a sewage treatment plant?...

Better a university on outside-development zones than a...

Needed: Arts to disrupt rigid schooling
Evarist Bartolo

Culture industries contribute around 5% of GDP and employ more than 10,000 persons… it becomes clear that art isn’t an extra but an integral part...

Culture industries contribute around 5% of GDP and employ...

Just bomb it anyway…
Raphael Vassallo

‘[Migration] is not only a humanitarian emergency, but also a security crisis, since smuggling networks are linked to, and in some cases finance,...

‘[Migration] is not only a humanitarian emergency,...

An alternative site? No need, it’s ok for MEPA
Ryan Callus

The Prime Minister’s commitment to finding an alternative site cannot be...

The Prime Minister’s commitment to finding an...

The Wonderful Wizard of ODZ
Raphael Vassallo

With the simple flick of a magic wand, all that was considered awful and reprehensible when it took place under a Nationalist administration, miraculously...

With the simple flick of a magic wand, all that was...

In defence of a colleague
Saviour Balzan

What I can safely say is that the PBS newsroom under head of news Reno Bugeja is infinitely much better and more fair than it was under its previous head of...

What I can safely say is that the PBS newsroom under head...

Without active protest, our land will be given away
Josanne Cassar

It is high time to move beyond being mere keyboard activists against the...

It is high time to move beyond being mere keyboard...

Saviour Balzan’s videoblog
Saviour Balzan

Do general elections in the United Kingdom have the same effect on personal lives as Malta's general elections?

Do general elections in the United Kingdom have the same...

New Parliament, same old charade
Raphael Vassallo

It doesn’t actually matter where you house that institution, if it’s going to carry on behaving in such a myopic and spectacularly asinine way.

It doesn’t actually matter where you house that...

That last chance
Edward Mallia

During the ECJ hearings spring hunting was stopped. There were no cries of “collective punishment”; no talk on “possible legal...

During the ECJ hearings spring hunting was stopped. There...

Labour’s ‘big tent’ and the PN’s ideological identity
Frank Psaila

What the PN’s battle cry would be in 2018, is anybody’s guess...

What the PN’s battle cry would be in 2018, is...

Saviour Balzan's videoblog
Saviour Balzan

Following the arraignment of Former Gozo Minister Giovanna Debono’s husband over charges of using the ministerial budget to commission private works for...

Following the arraignment of Former Gozo Minister Giovanna...

We are our memory
Evarist Bartolo

The stories in these historical volumes are not remote occurrences - these are the stories we are still hearing about to the present day

The stories in these historical volumes are not remote...