Cartoon: 14 February 2016

The UAE prime minister, whose country is a collection of emirs, wants to introduce a minister for happiness - Joseph Muscat and Konrad Mizzi were attending the World Government...

Joseph Muscat’s ‘missing link’

After the Mintoff era, Labour struggled for years to come to terms with a new identity. Muscat is right to want to modernise his party’s structures… but it would be...

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...

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...

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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...

Evarist Bartolo

We know obesity is a problem in our islands but we have teamed up with the Ministry for Health to introduce more initiatives that will help educate our people...

We know obesity is a problem in our islands but we have...

This crisis will destroy Europe… but not how most people think

Raphael Vassallo

It is true that Europe’s future existence is ‘threatened’ by...

It is true that Europe’s future existence is...

The responsibility of 'Fortress Europe' in denying refugees legal ways of accessing protection has resulted in the unnecessary death of thousands upon...

The responsibility of 'Fortress Europe' in denying...

The reality we now witness forces us all to reassess this perception, and conclude that Europe has so far failed its ‘biggest test since WWII’.

The reality we now witness forces us all to reassess this...