Cancelling black and brown faces: Identità’s disservice to an inclusive Malta
James Debono
‘Everyone has a story to tell… we make it official’ the video clip touted as a rebranding of Identity Malta Agency proclaimed. Everyone except fellow Maltese of...
What’s the point of ‘National Strategy Plans’... if we never actually implement any of them?
Raphael Vassallo
Naturally, this leaves us with the most imponderable question of them all. If government itself doesn’t take its own ‘National Strategy Documents’ seriously...
We’ve struck oil and the future is scary
Josanne Cassar

For all the laughter, I think the audience at Sibna z-Zejt realized that its...

For all the laughter, I think the audience at Sibna z-Zejt...

Email etiquette for business communication
Kevin-James Fenech

Email have become the foremost method of communicating with colleagues and...

Email have become the foremost method of communicating with...

Who investigates the investigators?
Raphael Vassallo

My concern here is not with whether the allegations are true or not... but rather, with how they were handled by the authorities

My concern here is not with whether the allegations are...

Political dishonesty at Zonqor point
James Debono

The government's claim to the high moral ground lies buried under the soil at Zonqor. What we need now is an imbalance in favour of the environment.

The government's claim to the high moral ground lies...

Who needs science? Everyone
Evarist Bartolo

The importance of science cannot be stressed strongly enough: Malta features low in science graduates among EU countries

The importance of science cannot be stressed strongly...

Building the electoral machine for 2018
Frank Psaila

The PN cannot go to the polls in 2018 without a well-oiled electoral machine… a huge challenge because electoral campaigns cost money

The PN cannot go to the polls in 2018 without a well-oiled...

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...