The subject of my outrage is greater than yours
Josanne Cassar
The truth is that throughout the years I have learned to refrain from voicing certain thoughts on social media because the probability is that I will fall into a rabbit hole of...
A Republic not a Theocracy
Saviour Balzan
We are at a defining moment, we are close to being 60 years from Independence, but we have not managed to extricate ourselves from the hold of an insular and conservative Roman...
‘Disgusting, disappointing, infuriating’… but not ‘surprising’
Raphael Vassallo

It is a little difficult to expect anything better from the Malta Police Force…  when the Maltese government not only condones...

It is a little difficult to expect anything better from the...

Fresher’s was always a commercial hell-hole. Fair play for making students look like shallow, hungry lemmings

The Skinny | No 160 - Cash Bubble Campus Bonanza

The Skinny | No 160 - Cash Bubble Campus Bonanza

Navigating through the sudden increase in interest rates | Gordon Cordina, Kenneth Farrugia

BOV’s future base rate will need to be shaped by the overall size and pace of the ECB’s interest rate decisions going forward, especially if such...

BOV’s future base rate will need to be shaped by the...

Police brutality: mandatory anti-racism training needed 

It is therefore high time that the government take ownership of this...

It is therefore high time that the government take...

Agricultural land reform
Michael Falzon

Having lost hope of reforming an existing government department that is set in its archaic ways, the adminstration resorts to the setting up of an Authority...

Having lost hope of reforming an existing government...

‘Bongu, Ministru’…
Raphael Vassallo

… well, is there any reason under the sun why any of us should take his second belated realisation, any more seriously than the first?

… well, is there any reason under the sun why any of...

Money for nothing? It’s a rich man’s world
Josanne Cassar

Unlike so many countries where university students voice their concerns...

Unlike so many countries where university students...

Media reform: setting the record straight
Saviour Balzan

At every stage of the reform, it was clear that the prerogative of what gets...

At every stage of the reform, it was clear that the...

Court orders that a statement cannot be made use of by the prosecution once a lawyer was not present for the interrogation
Malcolm Mifsud

Although the law allowing a lawyer to be present at an interrogation was not in the statute books at the time when the interrogation took place

Although the law allowing a lawyer to be present at an...

Rural leases: property market must be regulated

What the government’s proposed reform for agricultural leases this week...

What the government’s proposed reform for...

Delivering the promise of media reform | Jonathan Attard

These ground-breaking and innovative amendments will enshrine the duty to...

These ground-breaking and innovative amendments will...

Now is the time to empower girls
Renee Laiviera

Around 30% of women worldwide aged 15 years and older have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or...

Around 30% of women worldwide aged 15 years and older have...

The impact of the shrinking household on the environment | Rachael Scicluna

Rachael Scicluna | The phenomenon of one-person households and alternative living arrangements are now becoming urgent matters in policy terms due to their...

Rachael Scicluna | The phenomenon of one-person households...

It would take more than just a ‘new pronoun’ for Maltese to become gender-neutral
Raphael Vassallo

Everything, from tables, to chairs, to trees, to clouds, to body-parts, is effectively ‘genderless’ in the English language. In...

Everything, from tables, to chairs, to trees, to clouds, to...

EU suing Malta over passport sales? Insufferably buttoned-up is their hard-won brand!

The Skinny | No 159 – The Passports Pastizzi Yard Sale Conundrum

The Skinny | No 159 – The Passports Pastizzi Yard...

PN protest: a reminder that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’  

In this sense, the party needs to go into listening mode, and fashion its...

In this sense, the party needs to go into listening mode,...

Lessons in democracy, from Vladimir Putin…
Raphael Vassallo

While the rest of the world – including Malta’s government, and...

While the rest of the world – including Malta’s...

A pumping station too many
Michael Falzon

Does this venture into competition with private enterprise – by providing the consumer with commercial catering facilities in WSC premises – have...

Does this venture into competition with private enterprise...