Raw deal not green: why Malta is missing in action
Peter Agius
No wonder Malta lingers at the bottom of renewable energy efforts in Europe. The PN pledge to address with urgency this situation responds to a need for a more sustainable economy...
Cold war post-Brexit, and why the PN needs a communications maestro
Michael Falzon
The pretence that there is an ‘us and them’ continued even when the UK was an EU member state, let alone post Brexit
Inside the Bermuda Triangle of Corradino
Saviour Balzan

Beyond the recriminations, there is a bubble waiting to burst inside Corradino Correction Facility

Beyond the recriminations, there is a bubble waiting...

Stop blaming children for the behaviour of sexual predators
Josanne Cassar

When it comes to young children who have been exposed to sex, we must also be...

When it comes to young children who have been exposed to...

It’s a prison, not a personal fiefdom

Though not immediately related to any of the previous prison fatalities – most of which took place on Alexander Dalli’s watch – the attitude...

Though not immediately related to any of the previous...

Those who are not entitled to social benefits should refund
Malcolm Mifsud

Those individuals who have been given social benefits but then discovered that...

Those individuals who have been given social benefits but...

Coronavirus: compliance with controls will fall over the winter holidays
The Conversation

Sheheryar Banuri • In the upcoming holidays we face a different problem: the effects our behaviour has on one another – or what we call social norms

Sheheryar Banuri • In the upcoming holidays we face a...

If cannabis is ‘bad for your health’... what’s prison?
Raphael Vassallo

I can safely say 100% certainty that the prison experience must have caused...

I can safely say 100% certainty that the prison experience...

Political tribalism is no substitute for common courtesy

 A substantial chunk of the Maltese electorate no longer identifies with a...

 A substantial chunk of the Maltese electorate no...

A frank view from Malta on migration | Evarist Bartolo
Evarist Bartolo

We do not have the carrying capacity to take in more irregular migrants and...

We do not have the carrying capacity to take in more...

CAP reform: enemy of the European Green Deal
Ralph Cassar

The new CAP favours huge agro-industrial interests, and so continues to...

The new CAP favours huge agro-industrial interests, and so...

If the Baby Jesus is not appeased during this shameless spend-fest, His wrath will be catastrophic

No. 61 –  Christmas Cheer at the Capital: Pandemic Edition

No. 61 –  Christmas Cheer at the Capital:...

Edwin Vassallo may be a ‘dinosaur’… but he is not quite ‘extinct’ yet
Raphael Vassallo

Perhaps we should thank the likes of Edwin Vassallo for so graphically reminding us that the ‘struggle for equality’ is actually very far...

Perhaps we should thank the likes of Edwin...

What is Trump up to?
Michael Falzon

One cannot forget that until his term expires on January 20, Trump remains the commander-in-chief, whose orders must be obeyed if they’re lawful

One cannot forget that until his term expires on January...

SLAPPs are silencing hundreds of journalists in Europe: we need an EU law

For every journalist or activist threatened with violence in Europe, a hundred more are silenced discreetly by letters sent by law firms, perverting laws meant...

For every journalist or activist threatened with violence...

No, COVID does not have to steal Christmas
Josanne Cassar

Surely, for just this once, we can all stick to our nuclear family and...

Surely, for just this once, we can all stick to our nuclear...

The Jason Azzopardis of this world
Saviour Balzan

We have experienced many hypocritical politicians, but none of them beat Jason Azzopardi in magnitude and depth

We have experienced many hypocritical politicians, but none...

New standards and old values

What’s good for the goose is rightly good for the gander. That saying goes for Labour too: will its own MPs and ministers come clean on the...

What’s good for the goose is rightly good for the...

Investment companies should update their customers to allow them to query
Malcolm Mifsud

Investment companies should inform their customers on how their investment is developing in order to allow them to take educated decisions and query investment...

Investment companies should inform their customers on how...

How’s this for a conspiracy theory?
Raphael Vassallo

What better way than by deliberately engineering the acquittal of the prime suspect in Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder, only to then turn...

What better way than by deliberately engineering the...