Sure, placing migrants on pleasure boats owned by a now-disgraced former ambassador to Finland doesn’t send the right message

The Skinny | No. 39 • The Captain Morgan Boat Migrant Fiasco

[WATCH] Saviour Balzan’s video blog | Police must call in people who made bomb that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia

Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan questions the police’s motive in not calling in the bomb makers behind Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination

Raphael Vassallo

This is after all a medical, not a political problem; as such it requires a medical, and not a political solution

This is after all a medical, not a political problem; as...

This is the ultimate test for today’s ‘me first’ society

Josanne Cassar

If we cannot re-discover our ability to become a helping community it will not...

If we cannot re-discover our ability to become a helping...

Malta – along with the rest of the world – will be facing daunting challenges in the near future. Our ability to withstand them will depend,...

Malta – along with the rest of the world – will...

The gender pay gap is real. We need action

Miriam Dalli

The biggest failure of our society is treating equality as a women’s...

The biggest failure of our society is treating equality as...

The kind of macho ‘charisma’ espoused by the likes of Chetcuti will solve exactly nothing

The Skinny | No 25. MDA President Sandro Chetcuti

Michael Falzon

People owning a dog must have it tagged but people acting as demolition and excavation contractors do not need to have a licence. This glaring anomaly has...

People owning a dog must have it tagged but people acting...

Raphael Vassallo

Does it really have to be that way? Is it so very difficult, to devise a national construction and development policy that really does place the rights of...

Does it really have to be that way? Is it so very...

Saviour Balzan

There is an orgy of development today that is unacceptable and simply geared to make more people richer to the extent that their riches are simply unjustifiable

There is an orgy of development today that is unacceptable...

The world’s oldest profession. The world’s oldest argument

Josanne Cassar

Attempts to try and make sex workers seem like some kind of empowered, feminist...

Attempts to try and make sex workers seem like some kind of...

Why the Coronavirus matters... and why Pete Buttigieg is out – for now

Matthew Bugeja

Pete Buttigieg is out of the Democratic Primaries. Was it surprising? Yes and no

Pete Buttigieg is out of the Democratic Primaries. Was it...

Should former empires return removed relics (and do we get the sword back)?

Charles Xuereb

It is bad enough to find one’s iconic national treasures in global museums, but it is worse to have to pay huge sums of money to private concerns to...

It is bad enough to find one’s iconic national...

Court will use principle of proportionality to determine whether a party can appeal a judgement in parte

Malcolm Mifsud

The court held that since it was a commercial case and the applicant was a Government entity, it could not claim that it would suffer economic...

The court held that since it was a commercial case and...

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Mark Said

How can you control those who are out of control?

Josanne Cassar

That’s what happens when you give carte blanche to a mighty...

That’s what happens when you give carte...

And the construction machine keeps bulldozing on…

Raphael Vassallo

OK, so perhaps it was a little naïve of me to expect developers to...

OK, so perhaps it was a little naïve of me to expect...

But what does growth mean for those who die, or lose their loved ones? Clearly, we must reassess our national priorities… otherwise we would have failed...

But what does growth mean for those who die, or lose their...

Queues and empty shelves reveal our fear of an uncertain future

Raisa Galea

Deep down, everyone who was filling up trolleys with basic goods harboured no...

Deep down, everyone who was filling up trolleys with basic...

Homes cannot be our coffins. The tyranny of complacency ends today

Andrew Azzopardi

We must take on the dictatorship of the haves and demand that our little island...

We must take on the dictatorship of the haves and demand...

Panic-buying during the relatively mild coronavirus outbreak is a sobering litmus test

The Skinny | No 24. Bulk buying in the time of the coronavirus

The Skinny | No 24. Bulk buying in the time of the...