Why we expected more from the health and food authorities
We do not believe Malta has a crisis but one way of ensuring public health is safeguarded in the catering industry is through random inspections and punitive measures that are...
The importance of timely decisions
Toni Abela
The situation today is very far from the one I knew when I was a lawyer in my early years of practice
It is all about balance: Public interest vs individual interest
Malcolm Mifsud

​In a judgment delivered on 23 July 2026, the Constitutional Court awarded...

​In a judgment delivered on 23 July 2026, the...

Life is unmanageable when you are stateless
Mark Said

Individuals experiencing statelessness face distinctive difficulties. It can...

Individuals experiencing statelessness face distinctive...

Not another Tower of Babel!
Alexiei Dingli

So the real test of Magnifica Humanitas is not whether it is admired, quoted or discussed at conferences. The real test is whether it can be translated into...

So the real test of Magnifica Humanitas is not whether it...

Dear Jason, ‘funwashing’ will not exonerate you

The presence of 40,000 people for Pitbull’s concert does not mean that...

The presence of 40,000 people for Pitbull’s concert...

Malta should stand with Sánchez on Ceuta
James Debono

Mintoff would not have looked the other way while a fellow Mediterranean...

Mintoff would not have looked the other way while a fellow...

AI can make business faster, but only people make it better
Alexiei Dingli

The firms that will benefit most from AI are not those that use it everywhere,...

The firms that will benefit most from AI are not those that...

Switched off from reality
Mark Anthony Sammut

The heat is beyond anyone’s control. Whether our grid can withstand it, whether public money is spent effectively, and whether parliament is allowed to...

The heat is beyond anyone’s control. Whether our grid...

The real carrying capacity challenge is not population. It is human capital
JP Fabri

The question therefore is not whether migration has contributed to growth. It clearly has. The more important question is whether it has fundamentally changed...

The question therefore is not whether migration has...

We should not have to be pushed out of our homes
Josanne Cassar

Why should we be pushed out of our own homes just so business owners can make a...

Why should we be pushed out of our own homes just so...

The godfathers of institutional rot

What has become evidently clear so far is that Auberge de Castille in the Muscat years was the fulcrum of a renaissance of sleaze, where power, money and...

What has become evidently clear so far is that Auberge de...

When professional financial advice goes wrong
Julian Mifsud

​Financial advisers play an important role in helping individuals make...

​Financial advisers play an important role in helping...

Planning appeals reform: Suspension, finality and effective review

The proposed model therefore treats suspension not as an incidental procedural...

The proposed model therefore treats suspension not as an...

Towards a dominant-party system
Mark Said

Unless the two-party system is revived, a dominant-party (i.e., Labour) system is destined to be firmly rooted in our politics.

Unless the two-party system is revived, a dominant-party...

An illogical submissiveness to power

When these public entities fail to do their duty as expected, injustice and unfairness will prevail. And where injustice and unfairness are the order of the...

When these public entities fail to do their duty as...

Equality. But at what cost?
Mariana Debono

There is something faintly comic about passing a human rights law so quickly that human rights organisations must beg parliament for the right to be heard

There is something faintly comic about passing a human...

The long, hot summer of 2026… you reap what you sow
Josanne Cassar

With August around the corner we can expect the temperatures to climb again so...

With August around the corner we can expect the...

The power cuts were not caused by a heatwave. They were caused by a failure to plan
Ruben Abela

Heatwaves do not occur in a vacuum. Infrastructure does not fail in isolation. Electricity networks are designed to serve demand, and demand is ultimately a...

Heatwaves do not occur in a vacuum. Infrastructure does not...

The economics of now
JP Fabri

In the end, electricity was never really the story. It was simply the first warning that yesterday’s infrastructure is now being asked to carry...

In the end, electricity was never really the story. It was...