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The hymn of ‘the sweet mother who bore us’

Melvic Zammit

In the shadow of the ‘language question’, Dun Karm deliberately wrote the anthem without a single word of foreign origin, to show that Maltese did not need to borrow...

Violent adolescents: We need level heads, not knee-jerk reactions

Josanne Cassar

We need to take a long hard look at what is happening around us, including the erosion of respect towards authority figures such as teachers, who can testify to the increased...

Given the peculiar nature of many of the collective nouns found in English, perhaps it would not be entirely amiss if we borrow from the celebratory nature...

Given the peculiar nature of many of the collective nouns...

Newsflash: David Casa discovers that his own medicine doesn’t taste all that great, after all…

Raphael Vassallo

David Casa cannot so easily distance himself from the (entirely predictable) consequences of his own actions

David Casa cannot so easily distance himself from the...

Michael Falzon

Treating migrants shoddily will neither honour Malta nor help to avoid - let alone solve -the problems created by the migration phenomenon across the...

Treating migrants shoddily will neither honour Malta nor...

Josanne Cassar

Slowing down saves lives and don’t worry, you will still get to your destination... If you are always late and forever rushing then it’s your time...

Slowing down saves lives and don’t worry, you will...

Saviour Balzan

All the big talk in 2013 by the Labour administration about addressing these misdemeanours was a whole load of claptrap. Some of the individuals in the oil...

All the big talk in 2013 by the Labour administration about...

Reforming the personal assistance scheme for persons with a disability

Julia Farrugia

In our daily contact with persons with a disabililty and their parents and guardians, we are often reminded of the dilemma facing them when a surviving parent...

In our daily contact with persons with a disabililty and...

Are we are sleepwalking into an educational abyss? | Louis Naudi

Can we continue to ignore this debate? A workforce possessing these thinking...

Can we continue to ignore this debate? A workforce...

16-year-olds running the country? Maybe it’s not such a bad idea, after all…

Raphael Vassallo

Ah, but can we say the same for all the ‘adult politicians’, that we vote for in each and every election? No, I didn’t think so,...

Ah, but can we say the same for all the ‘adult...

Our prehistoric past faces another threat | Dawn Adrienne Saliba

Sadly, as the power dynamics currently stand, the voices of the many are...

Sadly, as the power dynamics currently stand, the voices of...

Michael Falzon

For the PN to persuade the majority of the one-third potential ‘abstainers’ to vote for a change in government, it needs to have a popular and...

For the PN to persuade the majority of the one-third...

It’s not ‘whataboutism’, to recognise that there are two sides to any conflict

Raphael Vassallo

Who do people like Roberta Metsola and Ursula von der Leyen think they’re actually ‘representing’, when they speak (so unilaterally)...

Who do people like Roberta Metsola and Ursula von der Leyen...

Abortion change that preserved the status quo | Neil Muscat

In stark contrast, the Diluted Amendment limits the scope of who may access the...

In stark contrast, the Diluted Amendment limits the scope...

Silver economy in Malta: A growing opportunity | Steve Ellul

Like most EU Mediterranean countries, Malta is experiencing a significant...

Like most EU Mediterranean countries, Malta is experiencing...

They call it ‘horse-trading’, but… why is only the EPP benefitting from the deal?

Raphael Vassallo

It’s not as though the EPP has simply ‘beaten all other parties’ to those positions, fair-and-square, in a democratic contest…...

It’s not as though the EPP has simply ‘beaten...

Job terminations: Delivering the bad news transparently

Mark Camilleri Gambin

As an HR manager or business owner, it is most wise to keep a close eye on...

As an HR manager or business owner, it is most wise to keep...

How does Malta intend to ‘unwaveringly support’ Ukraine, exactly?

Raphael Vassallo

Not-news | So why should the same ‘Neutrality clause’ suddenly...

Not-news | So why should the same ‘Neutrality...

Michael Falzon

In the case of Air Malta, amongst other things, the company was saddled with excess employees, thanks to political interference

In the case of Air Malta, amongst other things, the company...

Brincat’s opinions might be a load of BS… but so was the ensuing ‘outrage’

Raphael Vassallo

Now: like all good dictionary definitions, this one is sufficiently vague to account for a certain ‘flexibility’, in the way the word is actually...

Now: like all good dictionary definitions, this one is...