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Ethical foundations: Environment, social justice, good governance

Alex Borg

Social policy should not be about handouts or pity. It should be about giving people the tools and opportunities to live independent, meaningful lives

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...

Britain is poaching our nurses. What are we doing about it?

Raphael Vassallo

By virtue of our status as an EU member state, our passports are no longer our...

By virtue of our status as an EU member state, our...

Bernard Grech: where’s the alternative on environmental protection? Mark Sultana

BirdLife CEO: PN leader Bernard Grech has been caught in a buttering campaign to be clearly seen as sympathizing with the hunters

BirdLife CEO: PN leader Bernard Grech has been caught...

Stagnating wages and the minister’s wake-up call

Peter Agius

While Clyde Caruana launches a public consultation whose main question is how...

While Clyde Caruana launches a public consultation whose...

The PN’s ‘broad church’ coalition can no longer work

Raphael Vassallo

This is the one thing the Nationalist Party has conspicuously failed to do,...

This is the one thing the Nationalist Party has...

Should social media platforms do their own censoring?

Michael Falzon

There is no doubt that the Trump bans raised important questions about the role...

There is no doubt that the Trump bans raised important...

It is not about teachers, but about the children

Saviour Balzan

I am not sure how many of the MUT’s council members have children, but...

I am not sure how many of the MUT’s council members...

Josanne Cassar

I realise all politicians want to be liked but I can almost guarantee that even his critics would praise Abela if he really came down with an iron fist on the...

I realise all politicians want to be liked but I can almost...

While the government believes that PBS must operate with an independent editorial approach, we also believe the company’s services must appeal to, and...

While the government believes that PBS must operate with an...

Might as well face it, we’re addicted to EU funds

Raphael Vassallo

Strange, isn’t it, that the local roads minister would take all the flak...

Strange, isn’t it, that the local roads minister...

Migration and community: a bottom-up approach | Noah Fabri

Smaller open centres, spread around the island, more closely connected to the...

Smaller open centres, spread around the island, more...

So żobiku: the self-conceit of men in power

Arnold Cassola

First he came up with the most blasphemous of swearwords in the Maltese...

First he came up with the most blasphemous of swearwords in...

When do parental rights and responsibilities begin and end? | Isabel Stabile

Whether you drown in a river trying to save your child or you die during pregnancy, you are still dead

Whether you drown in a river trying to save your child or...

Raphael Vassallo

Just as they disagreed with Robert Abela, when he ignored district pressures, and acted on his own political calculations; and just as they disagreed with...

Just as they disagreed with Robert Abela, when he ignored...

Michael Falzon

Despite Bernard Grech’s improvement in the polls, unless the PN can plot out a strategy to counter Abela’s incredible ongoing Labour metamorphosis,...

Despite Bernard Grech’s improvement in the polls,...

The world can allow itself to start hoping again

Josanne Cassar

People are tired of listening to lies, stupidity and ignorance being put on...

People are tired of listening to lies, stupidity and...

Saviour Balzan

The Nationalist Party cannot revive itself if it is to build its next programme on ageing and tested men and women who cannot make way for new blood, or even...

The Nationalist Party cannot revive itself if it is to...

The real issue is fair competition… not ‘unfair propaganda’

Raphael Vassallo

This is not a matter of constitutional rights... it is the Competition And...

This is not a matter of constitutional rights... it is...

Julia Farrugia

Despite the pandemic and its challenges, the start of year 2021 is seeing thousands of pensioners benefitting from an increased pension

Despite the pandemic and its challenges, the start of year...