I think we should all do the decent thing and clear out of the island for summer

The Skinny | No 158 – Five Million Tourists, Please!

Collective punishment for hunters? Inconceivable!

Raphael Vassallo

I mean, honestly: how much more 'absolutely, totally and in all other ways INCONCEIVABLE’, can you possibly get?

The Maltese malaise of selective moral blindness

The Skinny | No 153 – The Unsinnable Saints

Who needs the Far Right, anyway, when we have PN/PL?

Raphael Vassallo

In a sense, then, this next election could almost be regarded as a straight...

In a sense, then, this next election could almost be...

Michael Falzon

Bernard Grech has become less and less effective as time passes...His words hardly excite the most loyal PN supporters, let alone those who have led their...

Bernard Grech has become less and less effective as time...

Remote governing... does Abela have a trust issue?

But his obsession with remaining in control all the time without trusting...

But his obsession with remaining in control all the time...

Interim measures in human rights cases should be applied in exceptional cases

Malcolm Mifsud

An interim measure should be allowed in very exceptional circumstances, such when the life of an individual is in danger

An interim measure should be allowed in very exceptional...

How can online porn be ‘bad’… when Malta is making so much money out of it?

Raphael Vassallo

At which point, we do have to ask ourselves: who’s the biggest ‘money-launderer’ in all this, anyway? Fr Luke Seguna… or the...

At which point, we do have to ask ourselves: ...

Saviour Balzan

Air Malta stands a chance of passing muster for the cut-throat competition of aviation only if it is shut down as a company, and then recreated as a new...

Air Malta stands a chance of passing muster for the...

After a two-year absence, festas are back with a vengeance

Josanne Cassar

While it is nice to see the centuries’ old traditions being upheld, it is...

While it is nice to see the centuries’ old traditions...

It’s not just 'competitiveness' that needs safeguarding

Malta’s business community needs to remember that its own competitiveness...

Malta’s business community needs to remember that its...

Climate inaction, corruption and dictators | Daniel Desira

We need a unified and vigilant environmental movement, as well as a strong...

We need a unified and vigilant environmental movement, as...

Embrace the madness: Congrats, you’ve cracked the Maltese electorate coping code

The Skinny | No 152 – Dense and Sweaty

Michael Falzon

The Labour Party and the current administration – both led by Robert Abela – did not react to Muscat’s outbursts. But is feigning that Muscat...

The Labour Party and the current administration –...

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Raphael Vassallo

A meat tax is probably inevitable – here’s how it could work | Cameron Hepburn, Franziska Funke

The average retail price for meat in high-income countries would need to increase by 35%-56% for beef, 25% for poultry, and 19% for lamb and pork to reflect...

The average retail price for meat in high-income countries...

If Frank Psaila is a ‘turncoat’… who the heck isn’t?

Raphael Vassallo

So if that makes Frank Psaila a ‘turncoat’ – even though he...

So if that makes Frank Psaila a ‘turncoat’...

Saviour Balzan

Graffiti’s show of force at Blue Lagoon is a reaction to decades of treating the Blue Lagoon as a postcard destination when in fact it is a veritable...

Graffiti’s show of force at Blue Lagoon is a reaction...

A warped sense of sympathy: why do we feel sorry for the culprit?

Josanne Cassar

When a 23-year-old driver was charged with killing Antoine Degabriele in a...

When a 23-year-old driver was charged with killing Antoine...

Air Malta cannot be saved by repeating the same mistakes

Editorial | Successive governments have always treated the airline, not as...

Editorial | Successive governments have always treated...

Court will only investigate a request for a counter-warrant on a prima facie basis

Malcolm Mifsud

The Court cannot enter deeply into the merits of the case, in order to decide whether it should issue a counter warrant for a garnishee order

The Court cannot enter deeply into the merits of the case,...