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Where does it hurt?

Mariella Dimech

Social issues do not make money. However, social and effective health services that are held accountable with the right monitoring tools, will create a healthy population that...

The EU should be built around its people

Thomas Bajada

I have said this many times before in the European Parliament, even at the risk of sounding dissonant when defence spending dominated the agenda—I do not believe a...

Climate inaction, corruption and dictators | Daniel Desira

We need a unified and vigilant environmental movement, as well as a strong...

We need a unified and vigilant environmental movement, as...

Michael Falzon

The Labour Party and the current administration – both led by Robert Abela – did not react to Muscat’s outbursts. But is feigning that Muscat...

The Labour Party and the current administration –...

A meat tax is probably inevitable – here’s how it could work | Cameron Hepburn, Franziska Funke

The average retail price for meat in high-income countries would need to increase by 35%-56% for beef, 25% for poultry, and 19% for lamb and pork to reflect...

The average retail price for meat in high-income countries...

If Frank Psaila is a ‘turncoat’… who the heck isn’t?

Raphael Vassallo

So if that makes Frank Psaila a ‘turncoat’ – even though he...

So if that makes Frank Psaila a ‘turncoat’...

A warped sense of sympathy: why do we feel sorry for the culprit?

Josanne Cassar

When a 23-year-old driver was charged with killing Antoine Degabriele in a...

When a 23-year-old driver was charged with killing Antoine...

Saviour Balzan

Graffiti’s show of force at Blue Lagoon is a reaction to decades of treating the Blue Lagoon as a postcard destination when in fact it is a veritable...

Graffiti’s show of force at Blue Lagoon is a reaction...

Ukraine: EU should have seen food and energy crises coming | Anna-Sophie Maass

The Conversation

Eight years on since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Putin’s war against Ukraine reflects the failure of the coercive diplomacy of...

Eight years on since Russia’s annexation of...

Russia/Ukraine grain deal promises major benefits for poor countries... if it holds | Wandile Sihlobo

The Conversation

Wandile Sihlobo | The deal’s impact on grain prices is likely to be marginal. Grain prices are unlikely to return to pre-war levels

Wandile Sihlobo | The deal’s impact on grain...

Just when you thought it was safe (to go back to Comino)…

Raphael Vassallo

How much truth is there, really, to the government’s claim to have...

How much truth is there, really, to the government’s...

Raphael Vassallo

It was never really possible for Malta to retain all that ‘childhood innocence’, was it? Not when we were also transforming the island into a...

It was never really possible for Malta to retain all that...

Peter Agius

While Brussels foresees the gradual replacement of the current fossil fuel to a less polluting variant, it does not care to do the math on the price of this...

While Brussels foresees the gradual replacement of the...

Michael Falzon

The people who run the party keep on making the same mistakes, provoking more people to abandon the PN

The people who run the party keep on making the same...

Fancy a takeaway – from someone earning slave wages?

Josanne Cassar

As long as they remain underpaid, every time you use that food app, you are...

As long as they remain underpaid, every time you use that...

Is balance between environment and business attainable? | Steve Ellul

Quality tourism and greener urban areas are examples that can deliver more...

Quality tourism and greener urban areas are examples that...

Give me real Velociraptors, any day of the week…

Raphael Vassallo

And you know what? I’m beginning to think I’d much rather take my...

And you know what? I’m beginning to think I’d...

Rigging, rationing and equity in education | Lara Said

All children have a gift and/or a talent. Unfortunately not all schools allow...

All children have a gift and/or a talent. Unfortunately not...

Michael Falzon

n spite of the millions of EU and Malta government funds spent to upgrade the road network, the ordinary citizen is still being treated shabbily when it comes...

n spite of the millions of EU and Malta government funds...

When is Metsola going to start delivering on all those ‘women’s rights’ promises?

Raphael Vassallo

Maybe it’s just that Roberta Metsola really DID intend to fulfil those promises, all along … but – in between posing for one...

Maybe it’s just that Roberta Metsola really DID...