The PN’s problem: easy to state, hard but not impossible to solve

Frank Psaila

In 2013, people had had enough of the PN’s inflexible attitude towards the business community; arrogance; can’t-do, stuck-up,...

Stopping the rot

At this point, we must either resign ourselves to powerlessness in the face of an unsavoury culture that infects various strata of society… or we must try to do something...

Henry Frendo

Prof. Henry Frendo • Gudio de Marco had a sense of history, as shown in his well-known quip from Nerik Mizzi: that politics was neither a vocation nor a...

Prof. Henry Frendo • Gudio de Marco had a sense of...

Squeezing the stuffiness out of the Nationalist Party

Frank Psaila

The stuffiness of the Nationalist Party on a number of social issues has driven...

The stuffiness of the Nationalist Party on a number of...

James Debono

Malta’s objection to Israel’s bid to win a UN security council seat should also take into consideration Israel's repeated failure to abide by...

Malta’s objection to Israel’s bid to win a UN...

The discussion on party financing should focus less on the possible benefits to the parties, and more on bolstering the parties’ credibility

The discussion on party financing should focus less on the...

Michael Falzon

Muscat had hinted at probable impending changes some time ago, just after the EP elections, saying that holding local elections frequently was a recurring...

Muscat had hinted at probable impending changes some time...

‘Absurd’? ‘Illogical’? ‘Nonsensical’? – must be the justice system…

Raphael Vassallo

I am tempted to draw analogies with Monty Python’s dead parrot sketch here, but seriously: the real life experience is more surreal.

I am tempted to draw analogies with Monty Python’s...

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Saviour Balzan

There is little or nothing we can do to change the international situation. We are if anything insignificant and without influence and to believe that we...

There is little or nothing we can do to change the...

Josanne Cassar

If my life or that of my family were in danger I would not be quibbling about having to pay money in order to get the heck out of a dangerous, war-torn country.

If my life or that of my family were in danger I would not...

George M. Mangion

Today Air Malta is on its knees scraping though the intravenous intervention of a massive rescue operation. The sad truth is that during its chequered history...

Today Air Malta is on its knees scraping though the...