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Union membership: a right or a duty?

Mark Said

Not long ago, the main reason behind the call for mandatory union membership used to be to find a solution to the problem of ‘free-riding’, namely the enjoyment of...

Girls’ vision for the future

Renee Laiviera

In line with this vision, girls today are increasingly stepping into leadership roles, transforming their communities and societies

Saviour Balzan

No wonder most Maltese will not rally in large numbers to protect the countryside because those (and there are many) who have the privilege of owning private...

No wonder most Maltese will not rally in large numbers to...

The Rassemblement National and Russia: history of a strategic alliance

The Conversation

A victory by Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s presidential election would obviously be welcome news for Russia. As the brutal war in Ukraine drags on, the...

A victory by Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s presidential...

Raphael Vassallo

Is it because – as Ranier Fsadni seems to suggest, in a recent Times article – there is simply “no leadership alternative to Bernard Grech at...

Is it because – as Ranier Fsadni seems to suggest, in...

A legally rigged system for the PLPN | Ralph Cassar

For those who choose to forget, who see politics as one long party, with lots...

For those who choose to forget, who see politics as one...

We are not ‘derogating’ from the Birds Directive. We’re just breaking it, that’s all

Raphael Vassallo

What we are looking at now is an actual, full-blown, environmental emergency. There is, at the end of it all, a bird species that is threatened with possible...

What we are looking at now is an actual, full-blown,...

Michael Falzon

The increase of six seats to each side upsets the corrective mechanism made to ensure that, in a two-party House, the number of MPs in each party reflect the...

The increase of six seats to each side upsets the...

Malta’s cultural and spiritual need for religious pageantry

Josanne Cassar

Despite all the fears that a more culturally diverse demographic will eat away...

Despite all the fears that a more culturally diverse...

What is the PN waiting for to change leader, anyway? The Zombie Apocalypse?

Raphael Vassallo

More specifically: how would it go down, with the one category of voter whose support the PN most desperately needs to win back… if it is to stand even...

More specifically: how would it go down, with the one...

This skewed electoral system just has to change

Josanne Cassar

Our already flawed electoral system is ripe for abuse by those who are pulling...

Our already flawed electoral system is ripe for abuse by...

Abela should set the tone with his new administration

Saviour Balzan

Prime Minister Robert Abela should use the first six months ahead of him to...

Prime Minister Robert Abela should use the first six months...

One does not simply ‘kick Ian Borg upstairs’…

Raphael Vassallo

We all seem resigned to a situation, whereby a portfolio as vitally...

We all seem resigned to a situation, whereby...

Soft minds on humanities | Timothy Gambin

So, the next time the MEA, or anyone else for that matter, would like to...

So, the next time the MEA, or anyone else for that matter,...

Michael Falzon

Have those who have wrought so many problems within the PN taken their lesson?

Have those who have wrought so many problems within the PN...

Josanne Cassar

The worst thing any political party can do after a defeat is to turn its cannons onto the electorate, blaming them for the result - And yet, the immediate...

The worst thing any political party can do after a defeat...

Saviour Balzan

I believe that Grech has had all the good intention in the world in taking up the PN leadership, but I see neither savoir-faire nor sophistication in trying to...

I believe that Grech has had all the good intention in the...

Transformed by grief: my ‘bonus year’ at the side of my late mother

Mark Camilleri Gambin

There is no ‘getting over’ a loss: we have no choice but to live on with grief thereafter. This sense of finality and inevitability gives this...

There is no ‘getting over’ a loss: we have...

Kevin Aquilina

The WBRU is in a situation of lawlessness: the Gozo Minister enjoys no power over the WBRU and is not answerable in the House for its actions. The environment...

The WBRU is in a situation of lawlessness: the Gozo...

How about making today a ‘Day of Silence’ instead?

Raphael Vassallo

Or do we need that ‘silence’ a whole lot more, on a day...

Or do we need that ‘silence’ a whole lot more,...