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A tribute to Isabelle Bonnici

Mark Said

Jean Paul’s demise and the consequent permanent grief within his parents are just one of many other disastrous unintended consequences that occur as the direct consequence...

Suppressing foreign owned media

Michael Falzon

Even in public pedestrian areas like the area of the entrance to Valletta, heavy vehicles should not be allowed when maintenance works are carried out

Surveys, margins of error and misplaced frustration: the thoughts of an armchair critic

Kurt Sansone

Mary Anne Lauri’s frustration on how surveys should be interpreted was misplaced because the problem the PN faces is not how it reads the numbers but...

Mary Anne Lauri’s frustration on how surveys should...

Work and school should not come before public safety

Josanne Cassar

Unless you are saving lives in a hospital, maintaining law and order or pulling...

Unless you are saving lives in a hospital, maintaining law...

Why wait for a ‘Maltese Macron’… when you can be one yourself?

Raphael Vassallo

In a nutshell: just imagine, for a moment, what the Maltese political situation...

In a nutshell: just imagine, for a moment, what the Maltese...

Michael Falzon

Is it true that magistrates who give harsh sentences always find their degree of punishment reduced by whoever is judge when the case is appealed?

Is it true that magistrates who give harsh sentences always...

Child denied abortion after uncle’s rape: it could also happen in Malta

James Debono

But the outrage sparked by this case in a deeply conservative country like Poland further exposes Malta’s international isolation

But the outrage sparked by this case in a deeply...

Raphael Vassallo

I can more or less understand how politicians like Evarist Bartolo – who, let’s face it, depend exclusively on ‘voter-participation in...

I can more or less understand how politicians like Evarist...

Where do we draw the line at cancel culture?

Josanne Cassar

Encouraging cancel culture is a slippery slope which can get out of control to...

Encouraging cancel culture is a slippery slope which can...

Enough of the green light and more red cards please

Saviour Balzan

For once, the world of sports – the kind that is gaining a spine and a...

For once, the world of sports – the kind that is...

There is nothing ‘sustainable’ about Maltese hunting

Raphael Vassallo

Does this exhibition actually explain to students, for instance, that Malta is...

Does this exhibition actually explain to students, for...

Who came up with those new ‘cannabis rules’, anyway? Cheech and Chong?

Raphael Vassallo

How, then, are these people ever going to be eased out of the illegal situation that they find themselves in today… and finally brought in line with the...

How, then, are these people ever going to be eased out of...

Jailhouse rock: calls for Camilleri resignation more than justified

Michael Falzon

The legal process ignores completely the feelings and emotions of relatives and...

The legal process ignores completely the feelings and...

Josanne Cassar

I am of the belief that the way children are being raised matters, but it also has to be in conjunction with the way the nation is being governed

I am of the belief that the way children are being raised...

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Everyone in public service should be held accountable – even the judiciary – and the Bench should be part of a more open, public debate about the...

Everyone in public service should be held accountable...

You can’t have a ‘best year for Malta’s film industry’… without a Maltese film industry

Raphael Vassallo

I don’t know: if that’s Clayton Bartolo’s idea of ‘the best year for Malta’s film’; I’d hate to hear his pitch for an...

I don’t know: if that’s Clayton Bartolo’s...

Michael Falzon

No one knows how many cases of abuse and manipulation never see the light of day. A lot of domestic strife is never exposed. If only bedknobs and broomsticks...

No one knows how many cases of abuse and manipulation never...

Julia Farrugia Portelli

Question-time can actually be quite precious, giving us on the governing side and the Opposition an opportunity to go into details which otherwise would have...

Question-time can actually be quite precious, giving us on...

It’s not just the Gozo airport that’s ‘destined to fail’…

Raphael Vassallo

So while I can only applaud Alfred Sant’s umpteenth attempt to...

So while I can only applaud Alfred Sant’s umpteenth...

The never-ending saga of the big fish and the small fry

Josanne Cassar

The nation keeps being shell-shocked by these horrific deaths, but worse still...

The nation keeps being shell-shocked by these horrific...