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2025: A shaken duopoly... but will it be enough? | Kurt Borg

This year marked interesting developments in the ambitions of key individuals who seem to be upping the ante when it comes to aspiring for a seat in power

2025: Will AI take over your life? From self-driving buses to fake news

Alexiei Dingli

The year 2025 is not just about technology advancing – it’s about how we, as people, choose to use it. Will we let it deepen inequalities or close gaps? Will we...

We can do something about our leniency on excess

Saviour Balzan

The most unbearable moment in one’s life is to be awoken in the middle of...

The most unbearable moment in one’s life is to be...

Matteo Messina Denaro: end of an era, but not the end of the Cosa Nostra

The Conversation

Denaro’s arrest could well produce a power vacuum that throws the Cosa Nostra into crisis – but this is not the end of the mafia

Denaro’s arrest could well produce a power vacuum...

Farmers need fair valuation for their land | Miguel Azzopardi

The bill as currently proposed will make it more difficult for farmers to...

The bill as currently proposed will make it more difficult...

Malta, worried about climate change? Could have fooled me…

Raphael Vassallo

At least, the European Union’s official ‘leading nation’, in...

At least, the European Union’s official...

Cyrus Engerer

One should have nothing to hide as a representative of citizens. Any work done in Parliament is on behalf of the citizens we represent. We get paid by each and...

One should have nothing to hide as a representative of...

Rivers of tears, time-wasting and money down the drain

Michael Falzon

Instead of doing their duty, the police shifted the obvious decision to the...

Instead of doing their duty, the police shifted the obvious...

Bill 28 is not just about Andrea Prudente

Raphael Vassallo

… but the bill itself is still aimed at addressing a legal anomaly that...

… but the bill itself is still aimed at addressing a...

Singing people’s praises after they’ve gone

Josanne Cassar

Parnis was a ‘true Socialist’, Arrigo was a ‘true...

Parnis was a ‘true Socialist’, Arrigo was a...

Saviour Balzan

Beyond the petty squabbles over the choice of a Standards Commissioner, there is a brave new world which will have a massive impact on the way things will be...

Beyond the petty squabbles over the choice of a Standards...

Ratzinger: at odds with modern world | Matthew Schmalz

While the brilliance of this intellectual legacy will certainly endure, it will...

While the brilliance of this intellectual legacy will...

Raphael Vassallo

As I recall, the exact words were: ‘Shoot these bitches in the head one by one, facing each other’

As I recall, the exact words were: ‘Shoot these...

Michael Falzon

There is no doubt that the PN is still in a quandary. The expected upsurge resulting from so many new and young faces in the Opposition’s Parliamentary...

There is no doubt that the PN is still in a quandary. The...

Raphael Vassallo

I’m the first to agree with the widespread consensus, that Malta’s first-ever Standards Commissioner – George Hyzler – actually did a...

I’m the first to agree with the widespread consensus,...

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to follow a collection schedule

Josanne Cassar

We need to get a grip on the rubbish problem – it has to be our collective national new year’s resolution

We need to get a grip on the rubbish problem – it has...

Disagreement on standards? Not a good omen

Saviour Balzan

That both sides cannot come to a common stand to agree on the role of Standards...

That both sides cannot come to a common stand to agree on...

Next President after George Vella? There probably won’t even be one…

Raphael Vassallo

Savour the experience of living in a sovereign, independent Republic, for as long it actually lasts… because something tells me Vella may well end up...

Savour the experience of living in a sovereign, independent...

Why bottom-up approach is necessary for not-for-profit cannabis associations | Andrew Bonello, Oscar Pares

As Malta nears its one-year anniversary since enacting legislative changes allowing the limited possession and cultivation of cannabis, various questions...

As Malta nears its one-year anniversary since enacting...

Pelé: a global superstar who put passion at the heart of soccer | Simon Chadwick

The Conversation

Pelé wasn’t just a great player and a wonderful ambassador for the world’s favorite game; he was a cultural icon

Pelé wasn’t just a great player and a...