On the altar of greed not everyone’s belly and pockets are full
Angele Deguara
Economic growth is a major goal of this government but who is actually benefiting from this growth? And how does our economy grow?
Sounding the death knell for small businesses
Josanne Cassar
For some mysterious reason, everyone and their brother seems to think that the best business venture at the moment is to open a supermarket
Violent delights have violent ends
Evarist Bartolo

Regulation, people-first policies and a checks-and-balances structure has been wrongly, and misleadingly, packaged as needless bureaucracy

Regulation, people-first policies and a checks-and-balances...

How to scuttle your own party
Raphael Vassallo

As has happened on so many other occasions, it is the allegation that makes the story...with the ‘non-existence’ of proof dismissed as an...

As has happened on so many other occasions, it is the...

The political media today
Michael Falzon

The tone of the editorials of the GWU papers has recently become saner and more acceptable to the general public 

The tone of the editorials of the GWU papers has recently...

Politics isn’t always like football
Saviour Balzan

Marlene Farrugia has just done a Nigel Farage

Marlene Farrugia has just done a Nigel Farage

Dirty politics in leadership races are nothing new
Josanne Cassar

What PL leadership contenders did not have to contend with in 2008 was the ease...

What PL leadership contenders did not have to contend with...

Butlers to the cosmopolites? We’ll pay the price
Matthew Vella

Profit rules in Malta’s brave new cosmopolitan future, but we have no...

Profit rules in Malta’s brave new cosmopolitan...

You reap what you sow
Josanne Cassar

Many political pundits and observers had warned that this type of thing was inevitable, but there is no real satisfaction in saying, 'we told you so'

Many political pundits and observers had warned that this...

The story you don’t know about
Evarist Bartolo

The irony of it all is that those who spew hate towards people who escape conflict and violence are among those people who cheer on the same people when they...

The irony of it all is that those who spew hate towards...

The Presidency has come to an end, but it isn’t yet over
Frank Psaila

Apart from being an opportunity to showcase our work ethic and determination,...

Apart from being an opportunity to showcase our work ethic...

The resignation that never was
Michael Falzon

Call them ‘the clique’ or ‘the political establishment of the past’ or whatever, but the people behind the PN facade are still there...

Call them ‘the clique’ or ‘the political...

If you can’t stand the heat...
Raphael Vassallo

The point is that we are now inured to a situation where to be in politics is, effectively, to be at war

The point is that we are now inured to a situation where to...

The link between Gentlemen’s Clubs and prostitution
Josanne Cassar

In 2010 Iceland banned strip clubs with the reasoning that ‘it is not...

In 2010 Iceland banned strip clubs with the reasoning that...

Enjoying the show
Saviour Balzan

I have never had time for pretenders who pose as independent journalists, but are nothing more than ambitious political animals who relish in the art of...

I have never had time for pretenders who pose as...

[WATCH] Of facts and spin
Saviour Balzan

In his latest video blog, MaltaToday’s managing editor Saviour Balzan insists that his article on Adrian Delia's publicly-declared assets was by no...

In his latest video blog, MaltaToday’s managing...

Give me some space
Josanne Cassar

While I still prefer living in Malta to anywhere else, admittedly the negatives tend to assault your senses on too regular a basis. I boil it...

While I still prefer living in Malta to anywhere else,...

The island that turned itself into a desert
Raphael Vassallo

We are, in brief, doing our utmost to make this country as hot, parched and...

We are, in brief, doing our utmost to make this country as...

New broom at the union
Marco Bonnici

MUT appointments mark a number of firsts in the long history of the union, including the first female general secretary and also, with two females and two male...

MUT appointments mark a number of firsts in the long...

An assignment for social media
Evarist Bartolo

Ways for the public to openly air their views are crucial in today’s democracy [but] sometimes the wrong information… is put forward and common...

Ways for the public to openly air their views are crucial...