When the gunsmoke fades
Incoming Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela should pay close attention to the glaring administrative shortcomings this report has exposed within the Malta police force
Cartoon: 10 December 2014
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has dismissed Manuel Mallia after the former home affairs minister refused to step down.
Teenagers and the internet
Evarist Bartolo

The possible effects of excessive use of internet has sparked a debate between different schools of thought: those who believe that moderate internet use is...

The possible effects of excessive use of internet has...

Lessons from the electorate

Malta is changing; and unless its political parties likewise change, they will be simply left behind.

Malta is changing; and unless its political parties...

Back to the drawing board
Michael Falzon

After last week’s disappointing electoral result, will the PN go back to the drawing board, eat some humble pie and change its tactics?

After last week’s disappointing electoral result,...

Four funerals and a baptism
Raphael Vassallo

The Nationalist Party does not need to bury itself wholesale – it only needs to bury those things that have made it so unpopular over the years

The Nationalist Party does not need to bury itself...

What's worse than being in denial?
Saviour Balzan

We need a strong opposition, one that offers an alternative.

We need a strong opposition, one that offers an alternative.

When a mother lies
Josanne Cassar

Children desperately need their fathers too, and our society will be all the poorer if women persist by all means possible to cut men out of the...

Children desperately need their fathers too, and our...

Don't touch the referendum
James Debono

Presenting a petition calling on parliament to restrict referendum rights to protect the hunting lobby, undermines the democratic credentials of the...

Presenting a petition calling on parliament to...

Letters: 1st June 2014
A blessing in disguise
Frank Psaila

Joseph Muscat understands electors’ psyche, the Nationalist Party does not: this is what the Simon Busuttil’s PN is up against and unless it...

Joseph Muscat understands electors’ psyche, the...

The legitimacy of a government after an EP election defeat
Kevin Aquilina

Maltese political parties do not seem to suffer from this legitimacy syndrome....

Maltese political parties do not seem to suffer from this...

Company director personally responsible for giving wrongful instructions
Malcolm Mifsud

The First Hall of the Civil Courts on 16 May 2014 held that a company director was still personally responsible for damages after it was found that he had...

The First Hall of the Civil Courts on 16 May 2014 held that...

We could all learn a thing or two from Tal-Ajkla
Raphael Vassallo

We all need Zaren Bonnici in politics because he has so much to teach us all...

We all need Zaren Bonnici in politics because he has so...

What the PN needs...

There can be little doubt, then, who really needs to “wake up and smell the coffee”.

There can be little doubt, then, who really needs to...

The country needs strong opposition(s)
James Debono

Democracy is not served well by supersized governments confronted by weak and entrenched oppositions

Democracy is not served well by supersized governments...

Elegy for farmers
Evarist Bartolo

We have to strengthen vocational education in agriculture and veterinary services, at both secondary and post-secondary level.

We have to strengthen vocational education in agriculture...

In need of a reality check

There are indications that more people are switching off from the usual allure of the political parties.

There are indications that more people are switching off...

The 'association by guilt' trump card
Saviour Balzan

The Panini album stunt was an attempt to portray to what extent the Muscat slogan Malta Tagħna lkoll had become a bad joke. It could have been a great idea,...

The Panini album stunt was an attempt to portray to what...

Can I kick it? Yelkouan!
Raphael Vassallo

The sight of an infuriated pair of Yelkouans, fighting for the survival of their young in a fiercely competitive world, is both spectacular… and...

The sight of an infuriated pair of Yelkouans, fighting for...