The waste problem

From lax enforcement to inadequate waste collection frequencies, several large localities have become filthy with mounds of garbage bags being left to accumulate on pavements and...

Women’s World Cup: why are there so few female coaches in football? | Pete Holmes

A similarly low number exists in the WSL, and across Europe in France and Spain. Italy, with two female coaches among ten top-division posts, and Germany, with just one of 12,...

Video games, to blame for French riots? That’s like saying: ‘Qu’ils mangent de brioche!’

Raphael Vassallo

What was it again, that Marie-Antoinette has so often (and so unfairly) been vilified for, over the past two and a half centuries? Because as far as I can see,...

What was it again, that Marie-Antoinette has so often (and...

Israel’s war of aggression right under our nose

Sanctions against Israel, if it continues to flaunt international law and shun...

Sanctions against Israel, if it continues to flaunt...

I paid an overdue parking ticket last week. Will the PM cut a ribbon for me too?

No. 198 - Celebrating Caqnu

Lara Dimitrijevic

As a human rights defender and women’s rights activist, I cannot but state how deeply hurt I am to see a socialist party and a ‘so called’...

As a human rights defender and women’s rights...

Another step in the right direction | Ramona Attard

The Criminal Code amendments passed this week are yet another step in the right...

The Criminal Code amendments passed this week are yet...

Understanding the Love Island Malta phenomenon

Josanne Cassar

It is clear that local TV productions need to be more relatable to the Malta we...

It is clear that local TV productions need to be more...

Court grants divorce after the wife remarries

Malcolm Mifsud

The Court grants a divorce to the husband, when it is clear that the wife...

The Court grants a divorce to the husband, when it is clear...

Julia Farrugia

The beneficiaries of these changes will be the consumers themselves, most of whom will not need to go to court or incur any legal expenses

The beneficiaries of these changes will be the consumers...

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Bill 28: One man’s moral code and another man’s lack of spine

It is a pity that such an important reform, intended to safeguard women’s...

It is a pity that such an important reform, intended to...

Are politicians worried about being ‘replaced by AI’, too?

Raphael Vassallo

So far, so predictable. But what were those ministers’ actual responses,...

So far, so predictable. But what were those...

It's what we've come to expect from this particular government on any issue that inspires even a modicum of queasiness

The Skinny - No. 197 - Aborting Progress

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Josanne Cassar

Saviour Balzan

No amount of rhetoric or blame-shifting onto the Opposition will change this fact: Fearne, Attard, Buttigieg and the Prime Minister have betrayed women

No amount of rhetoric or blame-shifting onto the Opposition...

Abela has ‘made history’, all right... by taking us back to the Middle Ages!

Raphael Vassallo

What ‘milestone’? What ‘change’? Because as far as I can see, the only tangible achievement that Abela’s abortion bill can...

What ‘milestone’? What ‘change’?...

Michael Falzon

It should not be about ‘artistic freedom’ but about confirming the constitutional right that all Maltese citizens already enjoy

It should not be about ‘artistic freedom’ but...

Titan tragedy: Why the schadenfreude just because they were billionaires?

Josanne Cassar

It is possible to feel sorrow for the poor and desperate and to feel equal sorrow for the rich and mighty, both of whom have met their fate out at sea

It is possible to feel sorrow for the poor and desperate...

Saviour Balzan

So Vella's gamble has led Abela to retreat • The Prime Minister has claimed that the new abortion bill is a victory • We all...

So Vella's gamble has led Abela to...

All we are left with now is a dead man, a family unable to find closure, and no justice. The acquittal was the final act in an injustice that has been...

All we are left with now is a dead man, a family unable to...