Pawns in a game of brinkmanship

James Debono

Muscat is right that Europe can do more to help Malta, but using migrants as pawns in a brinkmanship game where their human rights are disposable, is not the way forward.

‘Stop criticising Libya’

Raphael Vassallo

The countries which assisted in Gaddafi’s overthrow must be made to see that they have a moral obligation to the people they ‘liberated’: to ensure safety, stability and a...

Our appeal: government must assure us it will retain a firm grip on the tiller of the economy. As for the opposition, it ought to at least concede that...

Our appeal: government must assure us it will retain a firm...

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

How is it possible that no serious thought is ever given to availing ourselves of a natural bonanza of water delivered directly to our door?

How is it possible that no serious thought is ever given to...

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Evarist Bartolo

By now consumer complainants are used to placing little value in MFSA indications of expected dates.

By now consumer complainants are used to placing little...

Claudine Cassar

Numerous studies have shown that children are not damaged in any way whatsoever by having gay parents.

Numerous studies have shown that children are not damaged...

The higher they climb, the harder they fall

Raphael Vassallo

Give someone a public platform to say anything at all, and before you know it...

Give someone a public platform to say anything at all, and...

Saviour Balzan

PBS has this amazing habit of defending its staff as if they were only answerable to the board of directors.

PBS has this amazing habit of defending its staff as if...

If the Nationalist government has no stomach to regulate such matters in a way equitable to all parties concerned then perhaps it were better if it did not...

If the Nationalist government has no stomach to regulate...

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Saviour Balzan

What a grotesquely incongruous situation: the campaign manager of the anti-divorce lobby is today the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry responsible for the...

What a grotesquely incongruous situation: the campaign...

Michael Falzon

What a grotesquely incongruous situation: the campaign manager of the anti-divorce lobby is today the Permanent Secretary of the ministry introducing the...

What a grotesquely incongruous situation: the campaign...

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James Debono

The proposed cohabitation bill risks institutionalising inequality by creating a ‘second class’ division for same sex couples.

The proposed cohabitation bill risks institutionalising...

According to the various ‘obituaries’ that would follow, Mintoff was either a superhuman idol who could absolutely no wrong whatsoever… or else a monster...

According to the various ‘obituaries’ that would...

Top Three Reasons Social Media Needs Real-Time Analytics

Jen Cohen

Someone once told me that the only function of a business that can be in a...

Someone once told me that the only function of a business...

James Debono

The collective mourning for Duminku Mintoff was also symptomatic of a legacy of the blind devotion to the leader he cultivated to challenge an oppressive...

The collective mourning for Duminku Mintoff was also...

Raphael Vassallo

Remember ‘national reconciliation’, folks? Maybe not. It was after all 25 years ago, and… let’s face it, we never heard anything of it since.

Remember ‘national reconciliation’, folks? Maybe not....

Claudine Cassar

There is no doubt that the main event this week was the death of Dom Mintoff and the ensuing public reaction.

There is no doubt that the main event this week was the...