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...
This is your justice system on drugs
Raphael Vassallo

The truth is that our justice system does not reform criminals. It produces them.

The truth is that our justice system does not reform...

Ten years down the line
Saviour Balzan

Vote for Europe, they said, if you do not want to wait in the line with "Arabs and blacks!"

Vote for Europe, they said, if you do not want to wait in...

Online but out of touch?
Josanne Cassar

Just as the magnetic allure of the wonderous iPad is irresistible to kids, so too is the hypnotic pull of having Facebook and other social media so enticingly...

Just as the magnetic allure of the wonderous iPad is...

Malta needs a gore-horror film
Teodor Reljic

Simshar is all well and good, but wouldn’t it be better if local filmmakers got down and dirty and made a mad, fun little B-movie instead?

Simshar is all well and good, but wouldn’t it be...

Life through the Panini album
Where's Wally?
Raphael Vassallo

Chris Said assures us all ‘we know where we stand’ with the PN in this campaign. He just won’t tell us until after the election, that’s...

Chris Said assures us all ‘we know where we...

On employment, the PN plays a numbers game
Evarist Bartolo

The PN leader’s claims are pure mathematical miscalculation. Eurostat...

The PN leader’s claims are pure mathematical...

MEP elections: some easy predictions
James Debono

Labour is set to win the MEP elections. The unknown variable is the scale of Labour’s victory.

Labour is set to win the MEP elections. The unknown...

Life on a 12-month lease
Farah Abdi

Migrants granted subsidiary forms of protection have no avenue of becoming Maltese citizens, but they still live without any form of security when their...

Migrants granted subsidiary forms of protection have no...

We're going slightly mad...
Raphael Vassallo

I imagine if the next foreign busybody happens to be Japanese, he or she will be curtly reminded of Pearl Harbour (or, more pointedly, Hiroshima) and likewise...

I imagine if the next foreign busybody happens to be...

Noah to the rescue
Saviour Balzan

When you have nothing better to do, you might want to consider ruining your Saturday mornings by listening to European Union candidates making wondrous...

When you have nothing better to do, you might want to...

The real issues
Josanne Cassar

Isn’t it time that we threatened politicians with our votes (because that seems to be the only way to get their attention)?

Isn’t it time that we threatened politicians with our...

Malta faces some future footballing greats
Angelo Chetcuti

A future Golden Ball winner could be playing in Malta next month

A future Golden Ball winner could be playing in Malta next...

Not Gonzi’s church, but neither Cremona’s
Frank Psaila

God forbid we have a return to Archbishop Gonzi’s church – but I am...

God forbid we have a return to Archbishop Gonzi’s...

One giant step backwards
Raphael Vassallo

We are no longer in the 60s. Yet Busuttil, who was not yet even born in the days of the Interdett, seems to want to take us all back there

We are no longer in the 60s. Yet Busuttil, who was not yet...

Civil rights for all
Evarist Bartolo

I feel privileged to be part of the party re-writing history and ensuring equality for us and for future generations.

I feel privileged to be part of the party re-writing...

Knisja kwieta
Carmen Sammut

Jien nixtieq nemmen li l-knisja tinsab kwieta għax tinsab f’burdata riflessiva. Nixtieq nemmen li fl-aħħar għarfet li l-eġemonija tagħha...

Jien nixtieq nemmen li l-knisja tinsab kwieta għax tinsab...

Unity or insignificance?
Michael Falzon

Last Monday’s mass abstention by the Opposition was a parliamentary first. One hopes it will also be the last.

Last Monday’s mass abstention by the Opposition was a...