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Comfortably numb

JP Fabri

Malta’s challenge is therefore not that we have become prosperous. It is that prosperity risks becoming anaesthetic

From individual talent to collective strength

Riccarda Darmanin

Individual voices can be ignored or silenced; a collective workforce cannot. Real power is born from community. You can build your scenius and overhaul your industry together

Mark Anthony Sammut

The heat is beyond anyone’s control. Whether our grid can withstand it, whether public money is spent effectively, and whether parliament is allowed to...

The heat is beyond anyone’s control. Whether our grid...

The real carrying capacity challenge is not population. It is human capital

JP Fabri

The question therefore is not whether migration has contributed to growth. It clearly has. The more important question is whether it has fundamentally changed...

The question therefore is not whether migration has...

We should not have to be pushed out of our homes

Josanne Cassar

Why should we be pushed out of our own homes just so business owners can make a...

Why should we be pushed out of our own homes just so...

Planning appeals reform: Suspension, finality and effective review

The proposed model therefore treats suspension not as an incidental procedural...

The proposed model therefore treats suspension not as an...

Mark Said

Unless the two-party system is revived, a dominant-party (i.e., Labour) system is destined to be firmly rooted in our politics.

Unless the two-party system is revived, a dominant-party...

Mariana Debono

There is something faintly comic about passing a human rights law so quickly that human rights organisations must beg parliament for the right to be heard

There is something faintly comic about passing a human...

The long, hot summer of 2026… you reap what you sow

Josanne Cassar

With August around the corner we can expect the temperatures to climb again so...

With August around the corner we can expect the...

The power cuts were not caused by a heatwave. They were caused by a failure to plan

Ruben Abela

Heatwaves do not occur in a vacuum. Infrastructure does not fail in isolation. Electricity networks are designed to serve demand, and demand is ultimately a...

Heatwaves do not occur in a vacuum. Infrastructure does not...

JP Fabri

In the end, electricity was never really the story. It was simply the first warning that yesterday’s infrastructure is now being asked to carry...

In the end, electricity was never really the story. It was...

Souvenirs of God: Broken pieces of a collective memory

Alexander Vella Gregory

I, like you, are left mourning the broken pieces of a collective memory

I, like you, are left mourning the broken pieces of a...

Mark Said

Ministers will also be acutely aware of the Ministry of Finance’s control of the purse strings. Money often dictates what can and cannot be done

Ministers will also be acutely aware of the Ministry of...

Europe’s richest young adults are Maltese. Now comes the hard part

Rodrick Zerafa

Malta can ensure that future generations are not only among Europe’s...

Malta can ensure that future generations are not only among...

Malta and Denmark lead the way on animal welfare

Alicia Bugeja Said

The way we treat animals reflects the values we choose to uphold as a society

The way we treat animals reflects the values we choose to...

IVF reform: Progress achieved should never become an excuse to stand still

Nikita Alamango

We should be proud of how far Malta has come. But progress should never become an excuse to stop progressing

We should be proud of how far Malta has come. But progress...

Josanne Cassar

I think next time Abela tries to say that he gave Manoel Island back to the people for a national park, we should ask him if that means we can now all go play...

I think next time Abela tries to say that he gave Manoel...

Saviour Balzan

We ended up with no holistic plan but with padel courts already taking up space

We ended up with no holistic plan but with padel courts...

The physics of progress and why Malta needs to learn to flow

JP Fabri

Physics, when understood properly, offers precisely that. It teaches us to...

Physics, when understood properly, offers precisely that....

Appearance should never be a reason to be treated unfairly or differently

Corinne Zahra

Why not instead use the phrases 'barranin' or 'ċittadini ta’ pajjiżi terzi' instead of the offensive “nies tat-tielet...

Why not instead use the phrases 'barranin' or...