Why not just rename it the ‘Ministry for Encouraging and Promoting Vehicle Use’?

Raphael Vassallo

Ian Borg has so far concentrated only on the ‘infrastructure’ side of his portfolio: and even then, only on infrastructural projects that just happen to facilitate one...

Prison may not be the answer to all criminality problems

Apart from the length of judicial proceedings questions have been raised on whether the judiciary has enough discretion to apply all the options at its disposal

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...

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...

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...

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...

Time to start taking Parliamentary ethics seriously

If nothing else, then, the Azzopardi case should at least serve as a...

If nothing else, then, the Azzopardi case should at least...

Aaron Farrugia / Miriam Dalli

We cannot ignore the consequential rise in pollution... such reversal is only possible through an ecological transition that recognizes the value of...

We cannot ignore the consequential rise in...

‘We’ll give them Tigné in Naxxar if we can have Paceville in Madliena too. Deal?’

The Skinny | No. 60 • Bringing Tigné to Naxxar

The Skinny | No. 60 • Bringing Tigné to...

Michael Falzon

But am I the only one worried with the fact that there are people who believe that the press can be asked to spin stories – for a price, of course?

But am I the only one worried with the fact that there are...

It was always about ‘getting rid of Trump’, never about electing Biden...

Raphael Vassallo

How else can such a hopelessly flawed system possibly be expected to end… but in a state of self-perpetuating mediocrity?

How else can such a hopelessly flawed system possibly be...

Why the end of the Trump Presidency is significant for everyone

Josanne Cassar

The way Trump handled the prospect that he was losing was a new low, even for...

The way Trump handled the prospect that he was losing was a...

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Miriam Dalli

JP Fabri

Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander

Saviour Balzan

We need to get serious. If Muscat has made such an allegation, it is something...

We need to get serious. If Muscat has made such an...

Courts must take into consideration all documents when deciding

Malcolm Mifsud

Courts and administrative tribunals must take into consideration all the...

Courts and administrative tribunals must take into...

‘Trumpism’... not just an American invention

While both major Maltese parties are ideologically far closer to the US...

While both major Maltese parties are ideologically far...

Raphael Vassallo

Malta’s entire environmental law is underpinned by a tacit, unspoken rule: ‘any or all of this legislation can be overridden at will, if the...

Malta’s entire environmental law is underpinned...

Ideally – as this newspaper has time and again insisted - our national approach should be determined by a committee of experts, representing all the...

Ideally – as this newspaper has time and again...

As the world looks at Poland, women in Malta have it worse

Dr Christopher Barbara: Despite all the negative attention it has attracted,...

Dr Christopher Barbara: Despite all the negative attention...