Grief must run its full course
To suppress the manifestation of national grief for Daphne Caruana Galizia, would not only be an affront to ordinary human decency. It would also be recklessly...
To suppress the manifestation of national grief for Daphne...
Mental illness is no laughing matter
While jokes like this can’t be condoned, they should serve as a reminder that more needs to be done on mental health, rather than an excuse to direct...
While jokes like this can’t be condoned, they should...
Malta’s misplaced identity debate
Foreigners who live, work and pay taxes in Malta are denied the possibility to at least apply for citizenship; while the wealthy are encouraged to simply buy a...
Foreigners who live, work and pay taxes in Malta are denied...
Transparency is an obligation, not a choice
Is the government bound to pay hefty penalties? Should it renege on its...
Is the government bound to pay hefty penalties? Should it...
Trolling the offenders
To be truly advocates of freedom and openness, solidarity and diversity, we must use our voice to challenge the trolls, racists and fascists; but also to...
To be truly advocates of freedom and openness, solidarity...
A SLAPP in the face of justice
Surely, we can at least reach consensus on the core issue at stake: the importance of the free press remaining free
Surely, we can at least reach consensus on the core issue...
The opposite of good governance
Ministerial responsibility must be shouldered
Ministerial responsibility must be shouldered
Government’s health strategy must be clear
In a sense, this was predictable: having no clear government...
In a sense, this was predictable: having no clear...
Pumping the environment dry
In an atmosphere where planning laws are forever being relaxed, and blatant illegalities approved or sanctioned by the country’s designated environmental...
In an atmosphere where planning laws are forever being...
Not all discussions need a mandate
We debate other issues without a mandate. And this debate is needed more.
We debate other issues without a mandate. And this debate...
Malta must mend the fences
The country cannot continue to ignore the present antipathy in its regard within the European Parliament, even if the EP’s treatment of Malta is...
The country cannot continue to ignore the present antipathy...
Policing the police
If the force is to retain its respectability, it must start cleaning up its own house - and to be seen doing so
If the force is to retain its respectability, it must start...
Zonqor campus must be stopped
As such, the Zonqor point controversy marked a clean reversal of one of Joseph Muscat’s earliest policies. That, in itself, merits an explanation. If...
As such, the Zonqor point controversy marked a clean...
2018 should be a year of major reforms
What better occasion than the end of a momentous year (momentous for all the wrong reasons), to ensure that the new one starts on a happier, more productive...
What better occasion than the end of a momentous year...
A most deadly year
For journalists reflecting on this deadly 2017, the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia still has blood freshly dripping off the last page of this...
For journalists reflecting on this deadly 2017, the...
Justice not seen to be done
A resulting impression from the Caruana Galizia murder case is that the quality of the justice served by our law courts is influenced in no small...
A resulting impression from the Caruana Galizia...
‘Law and order’ begins at home
Marsa is the clearest example of ‘ghettoisation’, whereby entire communities of non-native residents have been confined to certain areas
Marsa is the clearest example...
Drugs and Justice
We cannot have a system which, on paper, urges drug offenders to rehabilitate... while, in practice, refusing to give the rehabilitation process the...
We cannot have a system which, on paper, urges drug...
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