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It’s all about judicial accountability

Mark Said

Judicial activism creates a certain demand for accountability from the executive and the legislators, which we cannot shrug off by relying on judicial independence

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On 26th June Harm Reduction Malta joins the European Network of People Who Use Drugs to advocate for the full realisation of human rights for all people who use drugs

Raphael Vassallo

Malta has been practically begging the EU for a ‘relocation agreement’ for well over 15 years now... to no avail. Admittedly, it was the EU’s...

Malta has been practically begging the EU for a...

Michael Falzon

In the end, the issue, I suppose, is whether the writing under consideration instigates the reader to hate someone

In the end, the issue, I suppose, is whether the writing...

Saviour Balzan

Despite social distancing measures aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19, many keep meeting with family and friends

Despite social distancing measures aimed at limiting the...

Saviour Balzan

Obviously at a distance, the fact that he is not a pedigree Nationalist but the son of former Labour politician, means this lad has...

Obviously at a distance, the fact that he is...

Enough with calling them ‘vulnerable’ – how about we treat senior citizens with dignity?

Josanne Cassar

So... are there penalties for not wearing face-masks, or not?

Raphael Vassallo

Given all the excellent work carried out by the same Superintendence of Public...

Given all the excellent work carried out by the same...

Giving privacy a bad name | Mireille Caruana

What is of utmost importance is transparency and accountability: the detailed...

What is of utmost importance is transparency and...

I challenge Abela to publish the secret Vitals-Steward agreements

Adrian Delia

I challenge Prime Minister Abela to publish this secret agreement and the legal...

I challenge Prime Minister Abela to publish this secret...

Science should guide all our health policies... including abortion

Raphael Vassallo

Our total abortion ban is no less dangerous or unhinged (or even idiotic, for...

Our total abortion ban is no less dangerous or unhinged (or...

Saviour Balzan

Politics needs people like Evarist Bartolo; his party needs him, warts and all

Politics needs people like Evarist Bartolo; his party needs...

Michael Falzon

Instead of chiding its contractors for not doing their homework properly before accepting contracts that involved huge amounts of excavation waste,...

Instead of chiding its contractors for not doing their...

Josanne Cassar

The common factor, no matter what nationality we are, is that this new normal means that we need to keep our distance from each other and wear masks

The common factor, no matter what nationality we are, is...

Ryan Callus

If government truly has the well-being of our families at heart, the time of need and the time to act is definitely now

If government truly has the well-being of our families at...

‘More Europe’? Don’t we have enough already?

Raphael Vassallo

They failed to heed experts who said no country could fight the virus on its...

They failed to heed experts who said no country could fight...

Saviour Balzan

The government needs to map out a transition strategy to alleviate the economic stagnation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

The government needs to map out a transition strategy to...

Roberta Metsola

We cannot retreat to the comfort combination of populism, Eurosceptism and pseudo-nationalism so favoured by Labour. That will not solve anything – we...

We cannot retreat to the comfort combination of populism,...

Granting citizenship may have risks, but Malta isn’t the problem | Alex Muscat

One thing we have learnt from the COVID-19 crisis is that economic fortunes can change overnight. We now see there was great foresight when the Individual...

One thing we have learnt from the COVID-19 crisis is that...

When we finally reboot, we should do things differently. But will we?

Josanne Cassar

If we learn nothing from this crisis, at least I hope we learn that it is a bad idea to live from pay cheque to pay cheque or to assume (as so many did) that...

If we learn nothing from this crisis, at least I hope we...