Cartoon: 8 March 2017
Cartoon by Mikiel Galea
Investing in Europe’s youth
Evarist Bartolo
Improving our education and training systems is critical because it promotes social mobility and remains one of the best means of preventing social exclusion
Bury them in paperwork, they’ll never notice
Josanne Cassar

While businesses flourish, employers sharply shoot down any suggestion that...

While businesses flourish, employers sharply shoot down any...

The Paceville master plan is a violent form of gentrification
Matthew Vella

There is nothing organic about proposing a €150 million expropriation plan...

There is nothing organic about proposing a €150...

Are we taking organised crime seriously enough?

One can only imagine the national reaction in Malta if a child is killed...

One can only imagine the national reaction in Malta if...

With ‘star candidates’ like that...
Raphael Vassallo

The only thing that can really make a difference in Maltese politics is an evolutionary quantum leap among the younger generations of politicians -...

The only thing that can really make a difference in Maltese...

A knowledge industry with high standards
Evarist Bartolo

Education Malta, a not-for-profit initiative, will promote the internationalisation of education in Malta, encouraging foreign educational entities to...

Education Malta, a not-for-profit initiative, will promote...

Malta's publishing industry and the copyright exception
Mark Camilleri

The government should engage publishers further and guarantee that their...

The government should engage publishers further and...

Prejudice and objectivity: when the blogs rule the game
Michael Falzon

Malta is a country where ‘objectivity’ is the end result of...

Malta is a country where ‘objectivity’ is the...

It really is a jungle out there...
Raphael Vassallo

In both Delimara and Siggiewi, the entire issue revolved around the lack of valid planning permits

In both Delimara and Siggiewi, the entire issue revolved...

Paceville: The cart before the high-rise horse

The Labour government seems to be treating Malta’s scarcest...

The Labour government seems to be treating Malta’s...

The missing link in sex education
Josanne Cassar

As with most issues, schools and educators can only do so much without the backing and co-operation of parents

As with most issues, schools and educators can only do so...

The other side
Saviour Balzan

Malta is not the Somme, it is just another country with problems, but not with gargantuan complications… that alone should make everyone stop to...

Malta is not the Somme, it is just another country with...

Cartoon: 30 October 2016

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

The non-discussion about energy
Ralph Cassar

What we need is as many different sources of energy as possible; What we really need is to move at a faster rate toward more energy independence, through...

What we need is as many different sources of energy as...

Stay of proceedings is an extraordinary measure
Malcolm Mifsud

A stay of proceedings may be allowed, however, the principle should be that a...

A stay of proceedings may be allowed, however, the...

Sometimes, a court ban on person’s name has the opposite effect
Josanne Cassar

If we are serious about protecting women from sexual harassment, there should...

If we are serious about protecting women from sexual...

On judging others by one’s yardstick

The implications of Simon Busuttil’s attack are that any press story which negatively portrays his own party, is automatically an attack on democracy...

The implications of Simon Busuttil’s attack are that...

Conspiracy theory incorporated
Raphael Vassallo

Part of the anatomy of the classic conspiracy theory involves an erosion of trust in official authorities, which usually happens even when the official...

Part of the anatomy of the classic conspiracy theory...

Cartoon: 26 October 2016

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea