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No grass without the roots l Andrew Bonello

Cannabis reform in Malta: In 2025 we need to urgently ward off corporate and political infiltration, and ensure the regulatory framework realigns with its grass-roots, human and...

Monitoring the monitors

Michael Falzon

The idea that an official monitoring system is subject to an informal and unofficial monitoring system is not something exclusive to Gozo. It exists all over the world wherever...

Michael Falzon

From the Auditor General’s report on Enemalta, it results that the company has, for quite a number of years, consistently not managed to invest in the...

From the Auditor General’s report on Enemalta, it...

Tonio Fenech

The fact is that Enemalta is riddled with a lack of planning and secrecy. There is no transparency on how the millions of subsidies are being spent, while...

The fact is that Enemalta is riddled with a lack of...

Mark Said

While Maltese literature is doing very well and publications are relatively strong, the everyday use of the language in the digital world is minimal, and there...

While Maltese literature is doing very well and...

Parliament should listen: A case for ad hoc committees on abortion and surrogacy | Michael Farrugia

I believe more work needs to be done with respect to IVF. Two areas for evaluation are surrogacy for health reasons where implantation in the mother is...

I believe more work needs to be done with respect to IVF....

Michael Falzon

I am sure Roberta will not just rest on her laurels. Who knows what her next move will be two and a half years from now!

I am sure Roberta will not just rest on her laurels. Who...

Fake news, hard facts and muddled opinions

Carmen Sammut

These days disinformation is deeper, more insidious, and systematically spread...

These days disinformation is deeper, more insidious, and...

Taking the leap | Kayleigh Busuttil Fitzpatrick

Once someone told me, 'Dreams don't work unless you do', so yes, I...

Once someone told me, 'Dreams don't work unless you...

UN report on Malta’s human rights record | Mirane Vella, Joanna Onions

We also urged the Maltese government to implement without delay the recommendations which they had accepted from member states on the establishment of a human...

We also urged the Maltese government to implement without...

Michael Falzon

Surely, the ministry responsible for cultural heritage should intervene and take up the case in favour of the use of the ‘dgħajsa’ in the...

Surely, the ministry responsible for cultural heritage...

Muscat should be banished from PL after revelation of plot against Chris Fearne

Saviour Balzan

It is a sad day for the truth when the good guy in Cabinet, who stood up to the triumvirate, is in the dock today

It is a sad day for the truth when the good guy in Cabinet,...

The government does not have any appetite for curbing illegal development and land speculation. Despite making vague promises, it has not introduced...

The government does not have any appetite for curbing...

Michael Falzon

These values together with the diffusion of information are the basis for fostering and nurturing the people’s trust in the film industry.’

These values together with the diffusion of information are...

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Stewardgate: The cabal behind the Fearne smear campaign

Saviour Balzan

Those who are still loyal to Muscat insist with me that I should point my...

Those who are still loyal to Muscat insist with me that I...

Alexiei Dingli

The Pope’s vision focuses on an AI that augments human creativity and progress within ethical bounds

The Pope’s vision focuses on an AI that augments...

Those relished and cursed public opinion polls

Mark Said

If a public opinion poll about polls were to be taken, odds are that a majority...

If a public opinion poll about polls were to be taken, odds...

Michael Falzon

To his supporters – and I am one of them – Julian Assange is a valiant campaigner for truth

To his supporters – and I am one of them –...

Saviour Balzan

If there is one big white elephant in the room that continues to evade any mention in the Labour inner circle it has got to be the one and only Joseph Muscat

If there is one big white elephant in the room that...

Mark Said

Greed can be harnessed to serve social ends. It can spur entrepreneurial innovation, leading to broad prosperity. It is society that channels greed for such...

Greed can be harnessed to serve social ends. It can spur...