Upholding human decency
Evarist Bartolo
This is not about just one journalist, it’s an affront to the liberties and freedoms we all hold dear, as long as we are not selective in our definition of freedom of...
Malta isn’t working
Frank Psaila
They called her the ‘hate blogger’. Others wanted her dead. Politicians, across the political divides, despised her
[WATCH] Minor matters, lasting impression
Saviour Balzan

What might appear to be minor can still have a huge impact on people’s...

What might appear to be minor can still have a huge impact...

Unions can ramp up pressure on May
The Conversation

Despite a clear surge in support, unions now face the prospect of a weakened Conservative party, aided by the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Despite a clear surge in support, unions now face the...

Actions must be filed within the prescribed time
Malcolm Mifsud

A court turned down an action which was instituted after a 20-day period...

A court turned down an action which was instituted...

‘I’m going to tell on you’
Josanne Cassar

The way forward for our country is not going to be achieved by this “I’m going to tell on you at the EU” approach. We desperately need real...

The way forward for our country is not going to be achieved...

The PN’s future in the balance

The 1970s and 1980s were a time that called for increased militancy. Today, the electorate is attuned to less warlike, more conciliatory political rhetoric...

The 1970s and 1980s were a time that called for increased...

How to destroy a political party
Raphael Vassallo

If this is the way the PN intends to reinvent itself after its colossal June 2017 drubbing... in all honesty, it may as well just disband from now

If this is the way the PN intends to reinvent itself after...

On changing the PN, tread carefully
Manuel Delia

Manuel Delia has seen 15 years of political action up close. Now, the man ‘who messed up the buses’ says it is time for the PN to rebuild the...

Manuel Delia has seen 15 years of political action up...

Behind Muscat’s victory – winning people’s hearts
Paul A. Bartolo

Professor of psychology Paul A. Bartolo explains that Muscat’s landslide...

Professor of psychology Paul A. Bartolo explains that...

Campaign strategy? What strategy?
Raphael Vassallo

The PN seemed to seriously think that attacking Joseph Muscat, on its own, would somehow magically translate into support for their own party

The PN seemed to seriously think that attacking Joseph...

The dark side of the PN
Michael Falzon

It was no surprise, therefore, that the party machine would do its utmost to trip Claudio Grech by plotting his ‘downfall’: his not being...

It was no surprise, therefore, that the party machine would...

What we learnt from this election
Josanne Cassar

The Xarabank debate between Muscat and Busuttil will go down in history as one of the worst examples of political debates I have ever seen

The Xarabank debate between Muscat and Busuttil will go...

Lighting a flame
Saviour Balzan

The PN needs to kick start the process of seeing what it should stand for. Failure to do so will render it irrelevant

The PN needs to kick start the process of seeing what it...

Cartoon: 11 June 2017

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Missing Labour’s ground game

Political observers and the press may have refused to acknowledge how normal lives were being affected by public policy, missing Labour’s ground game

Political observers and the press may have refused to...

Arrogant denial of scientific truth

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement is simply an arrogant abrogation of science and cooperation

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw...

Confusion in products is unfair competition
Malcolm Mifsud

The fact that one gas distributor also filled the gas cylinders of competitors...

The fact that one gas distributor also filled the gas...

Franco Debono for PN leader? Excellent idea!
Raphael Vassallo

What the PN needs now are good ideas. And Franco Debono is literally swimming...

What the PN needs now are good ideas. And Franco Debono is...

How social media skewed an election campaign
Josanne Cassar

 On the eve of the election people were receiving warning messages and...

 On the eve of the election people were receiving...