When the argument gets the better of us
Josanne Cassar
Can we try and learn to stick to the argument at hand rather than going off in so many tangents that it’s like an explosion of different opinions and thoughts have...
Refugees: are you asking what you can do to help?
Carla Camilleri
Although refugee arrivals to Malta have not been as dramatic as in other parts of Europe, there is still a significant number of individuals and families that is in dire...
Court declares it has no jurisdiction to decide on rent due
Malcolm Mifsud

Magistrate Francesco Depasquale held that the court was not competent at law to...

Magistrate Francesco Depasquale held that the court was not...

‘Next year’ never comes
Raphael Vassallo

Nothing breeds confidence in future success quite like a string of successive, identical failures in the past, now does it? For let’s face it: this is...

Nothing breeds confidence in future success quite like a...

Ministerial discretion is the issue

The National Audit Office report observed that a direct order on six months’ hedging on unleaded gas and diesel was “detracting from the...

The National Audit Office report observed that a direct...

Cartoon: 18 March 2015
The wider perspective of the European environment
Leo Brincat

We often talk of resource efficiency and the low carbon economy, but for...

We often talk of resource efficiency and the low carbon...

Two years of meritocracy, transparency and accountability… yeah, right!
Ryan Callus

Not only have we been promised that a Labour government would be transparent, but the Prime Minister went as far to state that his government is the most...

Not only have we been promised that a Labour government...

From NEETs to YEETs
Evarist Bartolo

Inactive youths lead to low income adults in the future. There are several risk factors that have to be identified and there are many individual consequences...

Inactive youths lead to low income adults in the future....

Whistleblowers still unprotected

Already the scope of application of this law is limited (and would de facto exclude the oil scandal, or any comparable scenario).

Already the scope of application of this law is limited...

An appeal to re-think cultural policy
Mark Camilleri

Serving to all its intents and purposes as a pseudo-intellectual diatribe against populist aesthetic contempt, the Piano debate has certainly not been an...

Serving to all its intents and purposes as a...

Give wildlife a chance? No!
Raphael Vassallo

To imagine an Ornis Committee which took its decisions on the basis of the scientific data placed at its disposal – instead of to blindly rubberstamp the...

To imagine an Ornis Committee which took its decisions on...

Cartoon: 15 March 2015

Energy minister Konrad Mizzi has an important communication to make...

Energy minister Konrad Mizzi has an important communication...

Letters: 15 March 2015
Are we enabling young adults to be lazy?
Josanne Cassar

If kids are not “trained” from a very early age that they have to help around the house because that is what being part of a family means, then how...

If kids are not “trained” from a very early age...

Court confirms that case was already decided
Malcolm Mifsud

The Court of Appeal, composed of Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri, Mr Justice G....

The Court of Appeal, composed of Chief Justice Silvio...

The customer experience
Kevin-James Fenech

Clever branding on its own simply isn’t enough; the brand promise must be kept

Clever branding on its own simply isn’t enough;...

A recipe for scandal

As long ago as 2004, Minister Debono had been questioned regarding her husband’s position within the public service: a position that would be considered...

As long ago as 2004, Minister Debono had been questioned...

Error message: Total System Failure
Raphael Vassallo

What are all these scandals, exactly… if not a regular stream of subliminal error messages, sent out by a motherboard that is now so utterly riddled...

What are all these scandals, exactly… if not a...

The problem with SOCAR
James Debono

The government’s justification that it asked Enemalta to consider SOCAR to avoid raising the price of petrol by 2 cents raises more questions on...

The government’s justification that it asked...