Two decades and counting, we still chase the story

Saviour Balzan

As legacy newspapers keep feeling their way about to rediscover their true role as quality media, the well-documented story will always be the one true consideration for...

Social media gives callous people a wider audience

Josanne Cassar

Is it already too late for humanity to pull back from the brink of the darkness often found on social media? Some say it is. Personally I think such toxic, malicious people have...

Malta’s ‘capital of culture’ track record was spotty at best. What happens when we’re left to our own devices?

The Skinny | No 103 – Marsa, Capital of Culture

‘The environment’ is about more than just ‘trees on roundabouts’, you know…

Raphael Vassallo

And this is why I suspect that no serious environmentalist could possibly have been consulted, in the drawing up of these proposals

And this is why I suspect that no serious environmentalist...

Michael Falzon

Upsetting once again the rental market by new forms of discriminatory government interference is a disservice Schembri – who holds university degrees in...

Upsetting once again the rental market by new forms of...

How is the removal of all that is historic ‘embellishment’?

Josanne Cassar

Every time I read that dreaded word ‘embellishment’ it is like a...

Every time I read that dreaded word...

Saviour Balzan

The Nationalist Party has to offer a vision, some form of hope, and an agenda that gives floating voters and also former voters that moved into Labour, a good...

The Nationalist Party has to offer a vision, some form of...

The importance of signatures in tender bids

Malcolm Mifsud

The signatures required in bids for tenders are important because a tender is a...

The signatures required in bids for tenders are important...

All of which raises a question that cannot be ignored forever. Why is Labour intent on ignoring the common citizen’s voice?

All of which raises a question that cannot be ignored...

‘Can’t do shit about it’ is not exactly an answer, you know…

Raphael Vassallo

So what, if Local Plans drawn up 20 years ago identified only ‘Wied...

So what, if Local Plans drawn up 20 years ago identified...

We cannot abandon the people of Afghanistan

Cyrus Engerer

We must be prepared for this, as we cannot have a repeat of the 2015 Syrian...

We must be prepared for this, as we cannot have a repeat of...

Grech’s divided Opposition: a tale of failed leadership | Ramona Attard

Bernard Grech clearly cannot offer a solution to the PN woes as his leadership was supported by one of these factions contributing to the fragmentation of the...

Bernard Grech clearly cannot offer a solution to the PN...

Government’s hands are not ‘tied’ by the 2006 local plans

Either way, it seems that government does have the power to revise the local...

Either way, it seems that government does have the power to...

Oh look: the victim of an evil PN local plan gets ready to steamroll over the rest of us

The Skinny | No 102 – The 2006 Local Plans

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Josanne Cassar

Abortion is a fact of life in modern Malta

Isabel Stabile

The presence of complete DNA and a beating heart are far less important than...

The presence of complete DNA and a beating heart are far...

‘Blessed are the boat-owners, for they shall inherit Marsaskala…’

Raphael Vassallo

By the same token, it will be the Marsaskala residents – the ones who rightly regard that bay as their own ‘public property’ – who will...

By the same token, it will be the Marsaskala residents...

The evidence is that people like the convenience of receiving treatment for less serious conditions close to home

The evidence is that people like the convenience of...

Michael Falzon

Attack, attack, attack seems to have been the only idea that was inspiring Joseph Muscat while replying to the questions made to him

Attack, attack, attack seems to have been the only idea...

Josanne Cassar

I never imagined a Labour minister would be so quick to quote (and embrace) something that was decided by a Nationalist administration

I never imagined a Labour minister would be...

Press ‘registration’: a red herring for control

Editorial | The idea of a professional warrant for journalists is at minimum a...

Editorial | The idea of a professional warrant for...