The budget that cried wolf
If the PN was chastised for embarking on an electoral ‘auction sale’, the same criticism will have to be levelled at today’s government for failing to rein in the same bad...
Between fat cats and migrants
James Debono
It is ironic that xenophobes who constantly grumble about illegal migrants or foreign workers are silent on facilitating a permanent residency scheme aimed at attracting foreign...
Desperate bedfellows

Viewed only through a narrow prism, the cohabitation move is admittedly little short of a political masterstroke.

Viewed only through a narrow prism, the cohabitation move...

Saviour Balzan's videoblog
Saviour Balzan

Mediatoday managing editor Saviour Balzan on the current political crisis, from the Reporter studios.

Mediatoday managing editor Saviour Balzan on the current...

This is not a coalition
James Debono

In Europe, coalitions are formed by two or more ‘real’ parties on a joint programme. Malta’s is a pact between a weakened Prime Minister and a bitter MP...

In Europe, coalitions are formed by two or more ‘real’...

From Lima with love
Saviour Balzan

The name of the game is survival, and everyone should say it as it is.

The name of the game is survival, and everyone should say...

How to seriously (but seriously) wreck a political party
Raphael Vassallo

I was momentarily distracted by the unexpected vision of an imaginary country...

I was momentarily distracted by the unexpected vision of an...

Fudge… and even more fudge
Michael Falzon

Do they honestly think that more fudge will explain all the fudge away?

Do they honestly think that more fudge will explain all the...

A terrible sense of déjà vu
Claudine Cassar

I have heard countless stories of soldiers taking food to the immigrants and helping – these would be the “good guys”. However, unfortunately, there must...

I have heard countless stories of soldiers taking food to...

Migrants are human beings as well
Evarist Bartolo

I attended the walk because I believe that the present system of how the State treats immigrants in Malta is inhumane.

I attended the walk because I believe that the present...

This is not the PN we once knew

The extent of the mess we are seeing today is a direct consequence of the sum total of these and other, myriad failures.

The extent of the mess we are seeing today is a direct...

Why stay on till 2013?
Raphael Vassallo

On Sunday, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi insisted yet again that he intends to stay on until the end of his term, which officially expires in mid-2013. My only...

On Sunday, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi insisted yet again...

What value life?
Claudine Cassar

Apparently the life of a Malian man is less precious than the life of a dog.

Apparently the life of a Malian man is less precious than...

Nicholas Azzopardi’s death: questions that will not go away
Evarist Bartolo

In parliament I asked the prime minister whether the police had held an...

In parliament I asked the prime minister whether the police...

Judge not, lest you seriously   piss us off
Raphael Vassallo

...as if one’s innocence or guilt now depends on how many people ‘join your...

...as if one’s innocence or guilt now depends on how many...

Cartoon 15 July 2012

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Cartoon by Mark Scicluna

Where does all this lead?

Effectively, all government’s resources have now been channelled only into its own surviva

Effectively, all government’s resources have now been...

Show us the evidence

Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando presents a quandary for the PN.

Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando presents a quandary for the PN.

Missionary position? It’s not for Presidents
Raphael Vassallo

Missionary work in Peru is the sort of thing one might expect from George Abela...

Missionary work in Peru is the sort of thing one might...

Caught in a political no man’s land

Regardless of how the PN chooses to ‘discipline’ its own members, the paralysis affecting the present government will invariably entail serious...

Regardless of how the PN chooses to ‘discipline’ its...