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When Mark Camilleri asked me for a €100,000 interest-free loan

Saviour Balzan

To purposely take one set of privileged chats, intentionally leaving all the other exchanges out, and publish without context whatsoever, is outright diabolical and criminal

Virginity testing law: pre-empting legal loopholes

Mark Said

Admittedly, a law that bans virginity testing strengthens the physician’s refusal. However, such a law ignores the broader goal of enabling children to navigate the path to...

Bongu! Paceville has been swarming with under-age teens for at least 25 years

Josanne Cassar

It’s time for parents to take back their control over what their kids get up to, and not cave in at the slightest rebellion. You know, like parents...

It’s time for parents to take back their control over...

Saviour Balzan

Supermarket politics and national amnesia

Jurgen Balzan

Malta’s political parties have occupied the State and other institutions...

Malta’s political parties have occupied the State and...

Solitary confinement in the 21st century? Seriously?

Raphael Vassallo

For better or worse, the use of ‘correctional facility’ to describe...

For better or worse, the use of ‘correctional...

Do refugees have a 'right' to hospitality?

The Conversation

To humanely respond to today’s “crisis” we need to understand...

To humanely respond to today’s “crisis”...

Leo Brincat

A walk through a rainforest elsewhere is not eco tourism unless that particular walk somehow benefits the environment and the people who live there.

A walk through a rainforest elsewhere is not eco tourism...

By Nationalist MEP Roberta Metsola and and shadow environment and transport minister Marthese Portelli

By Nationalist MEP Roberta Metsola and and shadow...

Evarist Bartolo

The community has an important role to play in the promotion of bilingualism as the home and early years settings are influenced by what happens within it

The community has an important role to play in the...

Michael Falzon

What I find most intriguing is that the story about the irregular GWU leases did not raise too many eyebrows while the revelations of former PN Minister Joe...

What I find most intriguing is that the story about the...

Is it a bird? A plane? Well, that depends…

Raphael Vassallo

Exactly how any of this is supposed to inspire confidence in the Public...

Exactly how any of this is supposed to inspire confidence...

Josanne Cassar

The very thought of being reduced to a solitary life when one grows old is heartbreaking, but it is not simply restricted to the elderly.

The very thought of being reduced to a solitary life when...

Saviour Balzan

On Thursday I testified in the Public Accounts Committee. The Commissioner of...

On Thursday I testified in the Public Accounts Committee....

More sex during South Africa’s World Cup meant more boys nine months on

The Conversation

Nine months after South Africa hosted the 2010 football World Cup a disproportionately higher number of male babies were born compared with the previous eight...

Nine months after South Africa hosted the 2010 football...

Raphael Vassallo

There is a war of attrition going on here: an eye for an eye, and a member of parliament for a member of parliament. But the analogy goes well beyond the most...

There is a war of attrition going on here: an eye for an...

Mark Anthony Sammut

Is it not ironic that Joseph Muscat is more worried about salami and sausages, than about those carcinogenic issues his government should be tackling: traffic,...

Is it not ironic that Joseph Muscat is more worried about...

21st century skills and learning outcomes

Evarist Bartolo

The introduction of learning outcomes pedagogy is meant to move away from the...

The introduction of learning outcomes pedagogy is meant to...

Michael Falzon

Keeping secret state agreements that somehow involve public financial matters should be a ‘no no’ for any government of any democratic...

Keeping secret state agreements that somehow involve public...

Saviour Balzan

To claim that all those gifts from Gaffarena were now part of some elaborate frame-up was utterly silly and stupid.

To claim that all those gifts from Gaffarena were now part...