Statistics: A tool to be used in the right way | Silvan Mifsud
The price differences can be caused by a myriad of different things from the size of the economy and hence the level of economies of scale, to different structures and situations,...
We did not sign up for this
Josanne Cassar
I doubt many Labour voters are happy to learn that Muscat walked away from the leadership with tens of thousands of Euro in lucrative consultancy deals entered into with the very...
‘But for her name begins with G…’
Raphael Vassallo

OK, so Joanna Gonzi doesn’t like Labourites and neither does Julian Galea. Gee, who would have ever guessed?

OK, so Joanna Gonzi doesn’t like Labourites and neither...

Expensive puppets on a string
Evarist Bartolo

The country has for far too long been run by politicians described by Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis in The Fratricides.

The country has for far too long been run by politicians...

The quota problem
Claudine Cassar

I sometimes wonder if people who spout such nonsense actually stop to think about what they are saying. Their opinion of women must be really low...

I sometimes wonder if people who spout such nonsense...

Enemalta: The sick man of Malta
Michael Falzon

The government publicly ridiculed Labour's promises to reduce water and energy tariffs.

The government publicly ridiculed Labour's promises to...

St Paul's Bay: My home town, my story
Carmen Sammut

Today's political analysts would describe the conservative traditional village of my childhood as 'deep blue'. But this blue became now paler and paler.

Today's political analysts would describe the conservative...

St Paul's Bay: My home town, my story
Carmen Sammut

I sit in my room in Nablus, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It is the first day of a long weekend thanks to a public holiday celebrating Women's Day....

I sit in my room in Nablus, in the Occupied Palestinian...

It’s Women’s Day! Needlework, anyone?
Caroline Muscat

We cannot address gender inequality without examining the culture, belief...

We cannot address gender inequality without examining the...

Councils that truly serve residents
Michael Briguglio

Alternattiva Demokratika's policies go beyond partisan pique, and AD councillors have always worked for resident's interests first and foremost.

Alternattiva Demokratika's policies go beyond partisan...

Vive la revolution!
Raphael Vassallo

Tonio Fenech now appears to acknowledge his government was economically (if not also socially) irresponsible to raise those tariffs the way it did.

Tonio Fenech now appears to acknowledge his government was...

Saviour Balzan's videoblog
Saviour Balzan

MediaToday Managing Editor Saviour Balzan on how the PN and the PL accuse each other of wrongdoings but then fail to shoulder responsibility for their own...

MediaToday Managing Editor Saviour Balzan on how the PN and...

Attenti al lupo
Saviour Balzan

Politicians of all colours and hues imagine that we have short memories. But we do not.

Politicians of all colours and hues imagine that we have...

Close to me
Raphael Vassallo

Oh dear. It must be getting to ‘that time of year’ again. You know, the time when not even Paris Hilton can realistically handle any further penetration of...

Oh dear. It must be getting to ‘that time of year’...

Dishonest politics at its best
Evarist Bartolo

Government does not have money to help vulnerable people yet it still finds money to pay consultants €6,000 a month, build a bridge to nowhere costing €3...

Government does not have money to help vulnerable people...

Stipends and blood diamonds
Claudine Cassar

If bribing young people with cash hand-outs is what it takes, then so be it. What I do have a problem with is the fact that government cannot afford these...

If bribing young people with cash hand-outs is what it...

PN and civil society: a relationship of convenience
Carmen Sammut

Very often government and a chorus of media supporters have portrayed critical...

Very often government and a chorus of media supporters have...

Farewell GonziPN?
James Debono

At the very moment that GonziPN was reaffirmed through a leadership contest with Lawrence Gonzi as the sole contestant, the PM ditched the GonziPN electoral...

At the very moment that GonziPN was reaffirmed through a...

Why Debono is history and the PM’s contest a farce
Saviour Balzan

Franco Debono’s decision not to come clean and state how he voted when we...

Franco Debono’s decision not to come clean and state how...

Happy clappers
Raphael Vassallo

Ah well, at least you can’t complain that Maltese politics is boring, as politics tend to be in most other parts of the world.

Ah well, at least you can’t complain that Maltese...