Hey local councils: What exactly are you responsible for?
Josanne Cassar
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...
Once upon a time there was a super majority
Saviour Balzan
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...
Likeability is still a factor in Maltese politics
Saviour Balzan

All candidates have said that they are supported by Muscat. But the truth is...

All candidates have said that they are supported by Muscat....

Brexit, calm water captains and lacking vision | Matthew Bugeja
Matthew Bugeja

Theresa May either needs to become an exceptional, once-in-a-generation leader,...

Theresa May either needs to become an exceptional,...

You WILL agree with me, if it’s the last thing you do
Josanne Cassar

Having opposing views is natural because we are all unique individuals who look...

Having opposing views is natural because we are all unique...

‘Norbert’s Nails’, revisited
Raphael Vassallo

It seems to me that the source of the outrage is not the concept of Jesus actually eating a pizza but the fact that there is no longer any legal...

It seems to me that the source of the outrage is not...

The door is always open
Frank Psaila

The PN must rediscover its long lost can do approach: open its doors wide open for all people of good will; stand up for what is right and place the individual...

The PN must rediscover its long lost can do approach: open...

It all started 53 years ago
Evarist Bartolo

Progress has sometimes been slow, and sometimes non-existent but ultimately you cannot have second-class citizens

Progress has sometimes been slow, and sometimes...

‘What the leader says, goes’
Raphael Vassallo

Just consider how utterly dependent the Labour Party has now become on the identity of Joseph Muscat, to even have an identity of its own

Just consider how utterly dependent the Labour Party has...

The first law of holes
Michael Falzon

There has never been a really healthy open PN leadership contest since Eddie Fenech Adami’s in 1977... there was then no PN establishment putting...

There has never been a really healthy open PN leadership...

Wanted: Strong lobby for domestic violence victims
Josanne Cassar

If the Labour government wants to be a truly left-wing, socialist government...

If the Labour government wants to be a truly left-wing,...

They are not just townhouses in Zebbug
Saviour Balzan

The demolition of the Zebbug townhouses is far worse than the towers that Joe Portelli has erected, and were sanctioned even though the PA disregarded the...

The demolition of the Zebbug townhouses is far worse than...

Conservative voices should not be shut down
Josanne Cassar

The beauty of a democracy is that everyone’s beliefs can be represented...

The beauty of a democracy is that everyone’s beliefs...

They’re not ‘dinosaurs’. Dinosaurs are extinct...
Raphael Vassallo

Their precious Nationalist Party has just been gutted like an Icthyosaurus at...

Their precious Nationalist Party has just been gutted like...

Malta’s low readership is a wake-up call for the government
Mark Camilleri

Books are not just a cultural segment offering enjoyment and an experience....

Books are not just a cultural segment offering enjoyment...

Not a statistic
Evarist Bartolo

A lot of people from Aleppo were killed. Residents had wrongly assumed the fighting would remain confined to other parts of the country

A lot of people from Aleppo were killed. Residents had...

Surplus and deceit

The accounts posted and accepted by the Central Bank of Malta in 1972 show that the NBM was solvent to the tune of Lm2.9 million as audited by the bank’s...

The accounts posted and accepted by the Central Bank of...

Not ‘traitors’, but certainly not ‘patriots’ either
Raphael Vassallo

By taking this idiotic partisan pique to the highest European levels, we...

By taking this idiotic partisan pique to the highest...

The singer not the song
Michael Falzon

Many posts on blogs and on Facebook provoke such one-sided blind hate that one starts to doubt whether we really are a mature and civilised country

Many posts on blogs and on Facebook provoke such one-sided...

Politicians: What not to do
Josanne Cassar

I really think we need to publish a guide for any aspiring politician who is keen on getting involved at local council level in the hope that one day this will...

I really think we need to publish a guide for any aspiring...