Breathing relevance into the Presidency
Since becoming President of the Republic, former social policy minister Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca has certainly not allowed the position to influence her outspokenness on...
Cartoon: 6 May 2015
The carrot-and-stick approach for the new ODZ university...
The fall of an icon
Josanne Cassar

The more women speak up, the more difficult it is to believe that he is innocent, because the obvious question many of us are asking is: how can it be that...

The more women speak up, the more difficult it is to...

No ifs, no buts, time to go
Saviour Balzan

Political responsibility in the modern sense does not mean that you carry out the act yourself. It goes beyond that.

Political responsibility in the modern sense does not mean...

Cartoon: 23 November 2014
New Planning Tribunal should have given opportunity to all parties to present evidence
Malcolm Mifsud

The Court of Appeal ruled on 12 November, 2014 in Joseph Xuereb -v- MEPA, that a letter challenging a stop notice was in fact an appeal in terms of the...

The Court of Appeal ruled on 12 November, 2014 in Joseph...

Red line crossed, again. Mallia must go
Frank Psaila

Mallia crossed the red line again and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has no option but to make him go

Mallia crossed the red line again and Prime Minister Joseph...

Voting rights: who dropped the clanger?
Marlene Mizzi

Electoral laws are, and should remain, in the remit of national governments and not be subjected to cut and paste laws and regulations of the EU

Electoral laws are, and should remain, in the remit of...

Budget: Between prejudice and supplements
James Debono

Being a single parent is not a profession says a moralising finance minister....

Being a single parent is not a profession says a moralising...

The untouchables
Frank Psaila

Under both Nationalist and now Labour administrations blue-eyed boys and girls have been appointed to positions of trust just because they happen to be...

Under both Nationalist and now Labour administrations...

Let’s all bash single mothers, then…
Raphael Vassallo

Just think of all the things we could do with those €4.5 million when we’re no longer using it to feed and clothe your children

Just think of all the things we could do with those...

A state of the nation speech

The days ahead will surely lead to further discussion and scrutiny of the budget and a more profound examination of the accuracy of the estimates and targets...

The days ahead will surely lead to further discussion and...

Precarious work needs full-time solution

Action needs to be taken at both local (government) and international (EU) level, with a view to ensuring that all workers are entitled to benefit from the...

Action needs to be taken at both local (government) and...

Joseph’s Cabinet blues
Michael Falzon

It is obvious that the euphoria of Labour’s historic electoral victory is over and Joseph Muscat’s ministers have been re-dimensioned by the man in...

It is obvious that the euphoria of Labour’s historic...

The Phantom of the Orpheum (a wild ghoul chase)
Raphael Vassallo

What contemporary myths suggest is that it takes more than just folklore and...

What contemporary myths suggest is that it takes more than...

Cartoon: 16 November 2014

Ahead of Budget 2015, Edward Fenech plans a carrot and stick approach to benefits

Ahead of Budget 2015, Edward Fenech plans a carrot and...

Letters : 16 November 2014
MaltaToday, 15 years later
Saviour Balzan

MaltaToday found its roots in the journalism of
1989 in alternattiva, where I spent a good seven years hitting out at a corrupt and unreformed Labour Party...

MaltaToday found its roots in the journalism of
1989 in...

Our virtual arguments seldom feature in the real world
Josanne Cassar

When I talk to people face to face, rather than virtually, I realize that quite...

When I talk to people face to face, rather than virtually,...

Giving a second chance
Malcolm Mifsud

The Court of Criminal Appeal on November 3, 2014 told a Magistrate’s Court to reactivate a suspended sentence in order to give an accused person another...

The Court of Criminal Appeal on November 3, 2014 told a...