No time to lower our guard
To insist on more mass-events now – at a point where only a tiny fraction of the population has been vaccinated; and when more potent variants of the virus have been...
The new European Bauhaus: recognising the opportunity | Cyrus Engerer
We can match the way in which the ecosystems around us live, with the way that we live and find a way to have our society complement the ecosystem around us
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...

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...

Playing our part in the ecological transition | Aaron Farrugia, Miriam Dalli
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...

Spinning reports for a price
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...