Celebrating our high-flyers

Evarist Bartolo

In mathematics, our students have won six bronze medals and two silver medals in Independent Challenge in the final round of the Mathematics Without Borders International...

The law courts’ ‘take-away’

Michael Falzon

The logistical running of the Law Courts – as distinct from the workings of the Judiciary – has always been shaky, to say the least

Evarist Bartolo

Do we really want an authority, whether Facebook or someone else, that controls what is shared and posted? It’s not like the truth has any chance

Do we really want an authority, whether Facebook or someone...

Money as a measure of success? Only ‘now’. And only ‘here’...

Raphael Vassallo

The rest of the EU is driven by ‘higher values’. It is only here in...

The rest of the EU is driven by ‘higher...

Michael Falzon

Someone must have lobbied to get the Planning Authority’s approval for the absurd platform... but many more lobbied for its removal. In this case, common...

Someone must have lobbied to get the Planning...

Josanne Cassar

The downside of Muscat’s “let’s do it” attitude is that he has forgotten (or chosen to forget) that the Labour party’s roots are...

The downside of Muscat’s “let’s do...

Saviour Balzan

I see her appointment as Judge to be only a matter of time

A perversion of the democratic principle

Paying the private sector for consultancy is tantamount to paying a lobbyist to influence decision-making, in a way that is obviously going to be beneficial to...

Paying the private sector for consultancy is tantamount to...

Maltese Law which precluded legal assistance during police interrogation deemed a breach of human right to fair hearing

Brian Vella was arrested under suspicion of his involvement in crimes relating to drug trafficking

Brian Vella was arrested under suspicion of his involvement...

Embracing change for a better society | Helena Dalli

I am all for scrutiny and debate to ensure that the legislation finally adopted...

I am all for scrutiny and debate to ensure that the...

Interests of the children should always come first

Josanne Cassar

The lives of vulnerable children are at stake and both sides must come to an...

The lives of vulnerable children are at stake and both...

Still premature to pathologise gamers | Andy Przybylski and Amy Orben

The diagnosis of video game addiction is not stable over time, because scholars...

The diagnosis of video game addiction is not stable over...

Gun control is about democracy, not guns

Raphael Vassallo

Perhaps we should be thankful, then, that our systemic failure hasn’t so far resulted in dozens of schoolchildren dead... as it continues to do in America

Perhaps we should be thankful, then, that our systemic...

International Mother Language Day in multilingual Malta | Phyllisienne Vassallo Gauci

Today more than ever, it is crucial in teaching and educational contexts to sustain the development of plurilingual and pluricultural competence in our learners

Today more than ever, it is crucial in teaching and...

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Evarist Bartolo

It seems that critics were questioning the level of government’s authority after your life

It seems that critics were questioning the level of...

Hardly a day goes by without a reminder of our cultural past being consigned to demolition, with no regard for the resulting overbuilt environment

Hardly a day goes by without a reminder of our...

Michael Falzon

It’s about time for Malta to take a look at the future and see how we would like it to be, and plan accordingly

It’s about time for Malta to take a look at the...

Raphael Vassallo

What started out as a personal reaction to a single act of vandalism – directed at those (admittedly hideous) polystyrene sculptures – quickly...

What started out as a personal reaction to a single act of...

Saviour Balzan

The removal of the ‘three billboards’ was petty, considering that so many billboards, originally illegal, have now been ‘legalised’ and...

The removal of the ‘three billboards’ was...

Josanne Cassar

Our legacy will be towns and villages which have merged into one another, dotted by petrol stations for the cars we cannot live without, to drive us to the...

Our legacy will be towns and villages which have merged...