

Delaying resignation will increase confusion
Unless Joseph Muscat resigns – and resigns now – chaos will...
Unless Joseph Muscat resigns – and resigns now...

A brave initiative that must deliver an outcome
Though any step that can bring closure to this case is to be welcomed,...
Though any step that can bring closure to this case is to...

From profits to people
Authorities such as the PA and the Buildings Regulation Office have been starved of resources: making it all but impossible to maintain the sort of monitoring...
Authorities such as the PA and the Buildings Regulation...

The PN has no ‘Plan B’, either
To ‘get rid of Delia’, today, is also to kiss goodbye to a not-insignificant section of the PN’s voter-base: a voter-base that has already...
To ‘get rid of Delia’, today, is also to kiss...

No more business ‘as usual’
Now is also time to demand more restrictions on noise, unlawful pressures to cede rights and more limits on the time during which construction is allowed
Now is also time to demand more restrictions on noise,...

A collapse in health and safety standards
The Labour administration has so far displayed sensitivity to such matters in...
The Labour administration has so far displayed sensitivity...

Gazing into the future
The PN has already been dismembered by wedge issues like gay marriage and adoptions; without a socially liberal orientation it will be condemned to stay as a...
The PN has already been dismembered by wedge issues like...

Detoxifying the PN brand
The fast pace of Labour’s civil society reforms left conservatives gasping for air. In the process, the ‘silent majority’ once believed to...
The fast pace of Labour’s civil society reforms left...

Good intentions are not enough
People want fairness, nothing more, nothing less. They want equity, and demand that the market does not rule every aspect of their life. They want intervention...
People want fairness, nothing more, nothing less. They want...

The PN truly needs a ‘New Way’
It would be futile to deny, however, that the problems facing the PN go far beyond its leadership issues, or even this result in itself
It would be futile to deny, however, that the problems...

Words must be translated into policies
Nonetheless, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s speech, though late in the day, set the right tone for a meaningful debate to take place. But our collective...
Nonetheless, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s speech,...

‘Putting children at risk’
One must also point out that the State – which has a Constitutional obligation to provide free education in Malta – is duty-bound to ascertain that...
One must also point out that the State – which has a...

Overplaying the abortion card
It is perhaps to be expected that the Nationalist Party leader would resort to playing this card. This is, after all, not the first time that the PN has...
It is perhaps to be expected that the Nationalist Party...

Parks are needed where people live
No amount of distant public parks can compensate for the lack of any breathing space from fumes and construction in one's own locality
No amount of distant public parks can compensate for the...