Football: the only game you can win without playing...
Raphael Vassallo
This week, I also discovered that football is a game you can win without even playing. Which also makes it an automatic licence to party like there’s no tomorrow…...
A time for preparation, not celebration
We need to have a plan B which is firmly in place to cater for possible second wave: including a widespread campaign to encourage people to take the influenza jab, and making...
Great, so when do we get La Valette’s sword back?
Raphael Vassallo

Greece gets its Marbles back… we get La Valette’s sword…...

Greece gets its Marbles back… we get La...

Is the Caruana Galizia public inquiry really working?
Saviour Balzan

The public inquiry seems to be a show of naïveté about what has...

The public inquiry seems to be a show of...

Public sentiment does not grow in a vacuum
Josanne Cassar

The ongoing public inquiry into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, which...

The ongoing public inquiry into the murder of Daphne...

Labour at 100: the need for self-reflection

Labour’s centenary may be the perfect opportunity for the party to adopt...

Labour’s centenary may be the perfect opportunity for...

Any administrative act may be scrutinised by the Administrative Review Tribunal
Malcolm Mifsud

The Administrative Review Tribunal is competent to hear and decide any administrative act or measure taken by a public authority

The Administrative Review Tribunal is competent to hear and...

What's €35 to you?
Josanne Cassar

The inequity of household incomes has been brought very much into the forefront with this cheque, proving once again how everything in life is relative

The inequity of household incomes has been brought very...

Malta’s medical doctors: No to total ban on abortion

By Gilbert Gravino and Liza Caruana-Finkel • Contrary to the long-held...

By Gilbert Gravino and Liza Caruana-Finkel • Contrary...

‘Politics pollutes policing’
Raphael Vassallo

Let’s face it: a state cannot be defined as ‘normal’ if it allows politics to impede the police from investigating serious crimes. But at...

Let’s face it: a state cannot be defined as...

The courage to rectify past mistakes

The government would be wise to rekindle a proposal made in one of its own budgets, and set up a public agency that would be responsible for tracking...

The government would be wise to rekindle a proposal made in...

A cheque every now and then is good, but send me one every week and you’ll have a voter for life

No 21. Edward Scicluna’s bread-and-milk money

No 21. Edward Scicluna’s bread-and-milk money

The PL-PN duopoly is finally fraying. And in ways least expected | Godfrey Baldacchino

For a party in government for seven years, rattled of late by allegations and revelations of shady deals and corrupt practices, the PL’s stratospheric...

For a party in government for seven years, rattled of late...

A house divided against itself
Michael Falzon

Delia is probably delusional, but so are those who want to oust him… they refuse to face the truth why so many PN voters switched. They lack political...

Delia is probably delusional, but so are those who want to...

Tear down the wall...
Raphael Vassallo

Ultimately, Robert Abela can only restore confidence in the system by coming to grips, once and for all, with all its underlying cracks and fissures… in...

Ultimately, Robert Abela can only restore confidence in the...

Why does disagreeing with someone have to lead to rage?
Josanne Cassar

As a nation we should thank this whistleblower who was brave enough to expose...

As a nation we should thank this whistleblower who was...

For Abela, an urgent political decision is up next...
Saviour Balzan

Robert Abela is in a quandary. Apart from the NAO investigation, he will...

Robert Abela is in a quandary. Apart from the NAO...

The institutional rot still runs deep

Like the rotten fish of the Maltese idiom, the stench must be addressed at its head. Without strong moral leadership there can be no revolution inside the...

Like the rotten fish of the Maltese idiom, the stench must...

No prescription among co-debtors
Malcolm Mifsud

When a co-debtor pays the debtor, the other debtor cannot raise the plea of prescription, in order to refund his share of the debt

When a co-debtor pays the debtor, the other debtor cannot...

People at the top decided to rewrite the rules
Josanne Cassar

What intrigued me about this documentary was the clash of two very different...

What intrigued me about this documentary was the clash of...