The dark side of COP21’s ‘success’

Edward Mallia

Compared to what it could have been it is a miracle; compared to what it should have been it is a disaster

Are political parties becoming irrelevant?

Abela’s appointment vacates the position of ‘deputy leader for party affairs’, and the choice of successor will invariably be interpreted as a sign of things to...

Raphael Vassallo

We’re not just talking smutty tabloids with a predilection for tits, asses and wildly exaggerated headlines. Last I looked, The Telegraph in particular...

We’re not just talking smutty tabloids with a...

Busuttil’s demands today immediately contrast with his immediate predecessor’s insistence on higher energy prices

Busuttil’s demands today immediately contrast with...

Migration, belatedly on top of the EU agenda

Leo Brincat

The Valletta Summit is important because in a true sense of shared...

The Valletta Summit is important because in a true sense of...

Jurgen Balzan

The outrage at the death of asylum seekers attempting to reach Europe by boat from Libya disappears as soon as the cameras at the extraordinary summits in...

The outrage at the death of asylum seekers attempting to...

Evarist Bartolo

We need to help our children distinguish between needs and wants and then to graduate to budgeting income and expenditure

We need to help our children distinguish between needs and...

Raphael Vassallo

It may be too early to draw similar conclusions about the introduction of civil unions: but again, the thrust of the scaremongering was all along about the...

It may be too early to draw similar conclusions about the...

Pope Francis’s reform has now streamlined the Ecclesiastic Annulment process by (among other things) scaling back the excessive bureaucracy that had...

Pope Francis’s reform has now streamlined the...

Simon panders to business. At what cost?

James Debono

Politically, Busuttil is making some wrong assumptions about his own electorate. He apes Muscat’s pre-2013 populism when voters expect him to be a voice...

Politically, Busuttil is making some wrong assumptions...

Matthew Vella

Pro-lifers tend to be gung-ho about their sanctimonious banging. They are shouting bloody murder at the top of their voices and drowning out the real human...

Pro-lifers tend to be gung-ho about their sanctimonious...

Whatever happened to honour thy mother and father?

Josanne Cassar

Government needs to tread very carefully on its Bill to protect the elderly...

Government needs to tread very carefully on its Bill to...

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Malcolm Mifsud

The First Hall of the Civil Court refused an application for the revocation of a garnishee order by means of a counter warrant, holding that the order was...

The First Hall of the Civil Court refused an application...

James Debono

I was always in love with the idea of Europe; its openness and its roots in the popular struggle against Nazism and Fascism. But now I find myself...

I was always in love with the idea of Europe; its openness...

Europe must not shirk its refugee obligations

This is not merely a challenge to Europe’s organisational capability when...

This is not merely a challenge to Europe’s...

Raphael Vassallo

Muscat himself evidently agrees with the idea of issuing humanitarian visas, seeing as he suggested it himself. So what’s stopping him from doing it...

Muscat himself evidently agrees with the idea of issuing...