If candidates running for re-election can promise us all sorts of marvellous things that they will be doing for their town/village over the next few years, why haven’t they...
Robert Abela will have to accept that the super majorities for Labour are a thing of the past and that the new campaign strategy will have to be based on differences of a few...
Mistreating migrants
Treating migrants shoddily will neither honour Malta nor help to avoid - let alone solve -the problems created by the migration phenomenon across the...
Treating migrants shoddily will neither honour Malta nor...
Our obsession with speed is killing us
Slowing down saves lives and don’t worry, you will still get to your destination... If you are always late and forever rushing then it’s your time...
Slowing down saves lives and don’t worry, you will...
George Farrugia
All the big talk in 2013 by the Labour administration about addressing these misdemeanours was a whole load of claptrap. Some of the individuals in the oil...
All the big talk in 2013 by the Labour administration about...
Reforming the personal assistance scheme for persons with a disability
In our daily contact with persons with a disabililty and their parents and guardians, we are often reminded of the dilemma facing them when a surviving parent...
In our daily contact with persons with a disabililty and...
Are we are sleepwalking into an educational abyss? | Louis Naudi
Can we continue to ignore this debate? A workforce possessing these thinking...
Can we continue to ignore this debate? A workforce...
16-year-olds running the country? Maybe it’s not such a bad idea, after all…
Ah, but can we say the same for all the ‘adult politicians’, that we vote for in each and every election? No, I didn’t think so,...
Ah, but can we say the same for all the ‘adult...
Our prehistoric past faces another threat | Dawn Adrienne Saliba
Sadly, as the power dynamics currently stand, the voices of the many are...
Sadly, as the power dynamics currently stand, the voices of...
A case of mid-term blues?
For the PN to persuade the majority of the one-third potential ‘abstainers’ to vote for a change in government, it needs to have a popular and...
For the PN to persuade the majority of the one-third...
It’s not ‘whataboutism’, to recognise that there are two sides to any conflict
Who do people like Roberta Metsola and Ursula von der Leyen think they’re actually ‘representing’, when they speak (so unilaterally)...
Who do people like Roberta Metsola and Ursula von der Leyen...
Abortion change that preserved the status quo | Neil Muscat
In stark contrast, the Diluted Amendment limits the scope of who may access the...
In stark contrast, the Diluted Amendment limits the scope...
Silver economy in Malta: A growing opportunity | Steve Ellul
Like most EU Mediterranean countries, Malta is experiencing a significant...
Like most EU Mediterranean countries, Malta is experiencing...
They call it ‘horse-trading’, but… why is only the EPP benefitting from the deal?
It’s not as though the EPP has simply ‘beaten all other parties’ to those positions, fair-and-square, in a democratic contest…...
It’s not as though the EPP has simply ‘beaten...
Job terminations: Delivering the bad news transparently
As an HR manager or business owner, it is most wise to keep a close eye on...
As an HR manager or business owner, it is most wise to keep...
How does Malta intend to ‘unwaveringly support’ Ukraine, exactly?
Not-news | So why should the same ‘Neutrality clause’ suddenly...
Not-news | So why should the same ‘Neutrality...
Brincat’s opinions might be a load of BS… but so was the ensuing ‘outrage’
Now: like all good dictionary definitions, this one is sufficiently vague to account for a certain ‘flexibility’, in the way the word is actually...
Now: like all good dictionary definitions, this one is...
The Air Malta tragedy
In the case of Air Malta, amongst other things, the company was saddled with excess employees, thanks to political interference
In the case of Air Malta, amongst other things, the company...
Hamas’s actions are hideous but the occupation has to be challenged
There can be no justification for killing hundreds of people in a rampage which...
There can be no justification for killing hundreds of...
The desired unity | Mark Said
Unity means not advancing policies that are opposed by the other side. This has been a repeated mantra on Net News, but it is not limited to conservative media
Unity means not advancing policies that are opposed by the...
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