A recipe for traffic-induced disaster
With the current rates of increase in car-use, doing nothing about traffic congestion will only result in a grid lock, but the consequences of this project are...
With the current rates of increase in car-use, doing...
Looking backwards to move forward
It is perhaps ironic that Delia’s attempt to address these issues has involved appointing a veteran from the Fenech Adami era – a classic case of...
It is perhaps ironic that Delia’s attempt to address...
Sleepwalking into an emergency
This is an emergency that must concern us, the Maltese, and our political leaders – even though we find nobody who can translate the scientific knowledge...
This is an emergency that must concern us, the Maltese, and...
A hotbed of conflicts of interest
To date, our national approach to this has always been to ignore the laws and conventions that make such situations unacceptable; in so doing, we have created...
To date, our national approach to this has always been to...
Muscat must end the uncertainty
Muscat had hinted that he believed country leaders should have a fixed term of 10 years and is arguably the first leader to have declared (not once, but...
Muscat had hinted that he believed country leaders should...
The real criminals in the Sea-Watch saga
It is, ironically, Italy’s own defiance of international law that caused the emergency in the first place. The Italian government’s attempts to...
It is, ironically, Italy’s own defiance of...
A brave but delicate proposal
The Education Ministry now wants to move away from having schools in Malta being “exam and test factories”. But its proposed alternatives have not...
The Education Ministry now wants to move away from having...
Crunch time for the PN
As things stand, only two possible outcomes may yet avert the total annihilation of the PN: either Delia emerges reconfirmed by a clear, unequivocal majority...
As things stand, only two possible outcomes may yet avert...
From profits to people
Authorities such as the PA and the Buildings Regulation Office have been starved of resources: making it all but impossible to maintain the sort of monitoring...
Authorities such as the PA and the Buildings Regulation...
The PN has no ‘Plan B’, either
To ‘get rid of Delia’, today, is also to kiss goodbye to a not-insignificant section of the PN’s voter-base: a voter-base that has already...
To ‘get rid of Delia’, today, is also to kiss...
No more business ‘as usual’
Now is also time to demand more restrictions on noise, unlawful pressures to cede rights and more limits on the time during which construction is allowed
Now is also time to demand more restrictions on noise,...
A collapse in health and safety standards
The Labour administration has so far displayed sensitivity to such matters in...
The Labour administration has so far displayed sensitivity...
Gazing into the future
The PN has already been dismembered by wedge issues like gay marriage and adoptions; without a socially liberal orientation it will be condemned to stay as a...
The PN has already been dismembered by wedge issues like...
Detoxifying the PN brand
The fast pace of Labour’s civil society reforms left conservatives gasping for air. In the process, the ‘silent majority’ once believed to...
The fast pace of Labour’s civil society reforms left...
Good intentions are not enough
People want fairness, nothing more, nothing less. They want equity, and demand that the market does not rule every aspect of their life. They want intervention...
People want fairness, nothing more, nothing less. They want...
The PN truly needs a ‘New Way’
It would be futile to deny, however, that the problems facing the PN go far beyond its leadership issues, or even this result in itself
It would be futile to deny, however, that the problems...
Words must be translated into policies
Nonetheless, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s speech, though late in the day, set the right tone for a meaningful debate to take place. But our collective...
Nonetheless, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s speech,...
‘Putting children at risk’
One must also point out that the State – which has a Constitutional obligation to provide free education in Malta – is duty-bound to ascertain that...
One must also point out that the State – which has a...