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...
Towards a genuine media reform
Though the Media and Defamation Act addresses a major aspect of Malta's defamation laws, there are certinaly areas which can be improved
Though the Media and Defamation Act addresses a major...
The only important thing now is closure
To many, there is more at stake in the outcome of this case than justice for the Caruana Galizia family, or even the pursuit of truth for its own sake. There...
To many, there is more at stake in the outcome of this case...
Panama, revisited
We can blame political ‘filibustering’ on the bi-partisan consensus out there: always capitalise on the failings of your enemy, even if it means...
We can blame political ‘filibustering’ on the...
Culture change needed on domestic violence
Whether domestic and gender-based violence is a new reality, or a reality...
Whether domestic and gender-based violence is a new...
Taking on Labour: opposing Muscat's growing supremacy
If an Opposition party is to fight Labour’s growing supremacy, it has to...
If an Opposition party is to fight Labour’s growing...
Desperate times call for desperate measures
According to statistics, Delia's approval rate is the lowest ever...
According to statistics, Delia's approval rate is the...
The EP resolution must be heeded
The European Parliament's resolution on Malta is important for us, and we should be mature enough to put aside political differences and accept...
The European Parliament's resolution on...
Malta should set its own ethical standards and get its act together
Rightly or wrongly, Malta has gained a reputation for notoriety in the...
Rightly or wrongly, Malta has gained a reputation for...
Secrecy must be attacked
Under circumstances where institutions cannot be trusted to undertake their responsibilities, information leaks are not only bound to happen... but they have...
Under circumstances where institutions cannot be trusted to...
No politics, no scandal
As with Panama, Malta features prominently in the cache of the leaked Paradise Papers, but to date, no political names have been exposed.
As with Panama, Malta features prominently in the cache of...
Malta’s ‘amoral familism’, revisited
Malta's two-party system knows it is kept alive by patronage and...
Malta's two-party system knows it is kept alive...
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National
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