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Dun Victor Grech: Patience, humility and a steely determination | Mariella Dimech

Mariella Dimech is a psychotherapist and worked for Caritas for almost two decades. She was part of the initial team building up the concept of rehabilitation for substance...

The need for a union for creatives

Gabriel Apap

The creative and entertainment industry is often romanticised as a world of passion, artistic creation, and self-expression. But behind the scenes, many workers are facing...

Michael Falzon

The international press has been putting Malta in a bad light ever since the Bidnija murder and the suspicion of some behind-the-scenes orchestration cannot be...

The international press has been putting Malta in a bad...

If you’re going to ‘rebel’... do it properly

Raphael Vassallo

I expected Delia's ill-conceived motion to be duly outvoted in parliament,...

I expected Delia's ill-conceived motion to be duly...

From Briguglio to Engerer, the battlescars of political enmity are on parade

Matthew Vella

The wounds on the Maltese political battlefield reveal a diseased society that basks in toxic rivalry

The wounds on the Maltese political battlefield reveal a...

Saviour Balzan

'Can Muscat be left with a strong opposition? Absolutely not. I hope a dream out there is getting ready to assume the mantle that will offer a reply to the...

'Can Muscat be left with a strong opposition?...

Forget about giving thanks, let’s go straight to the sales

Josanne Cassar

‘I don’t think anyone wants to go back to the old days of austerity...

‘I don’t think anyone wants to go back to the...

Did we lose the war on drugs, or have we just surrendered?

Dr Joseph Borg Ph.D • Calling the smoking cannabis...

Dr Joseph Borg Ph.D • Calling the smoking...

Josanne Cassar

Malta’s problem with hostility did not just appear magically now, but building up ever since it became ‘ballsy’ to trash people online. No...

Malta’s problem with hostility did not just appear...

Since when does the EU care about ‘rule of law’?

Raphael Vassallo

In a word, it's all about money: the only thing the EU has ever...

In a word, it's all about money: the only thing the EU...

Evarist Bartolo

Proposals on media reform were launched earlier this year. Though well received by the public then, overall, the feedback was that some polishing needed to be...

Proposals on media reform were launched earlier this year....

A fake bishop, impostors and State dinners

Frank Psaila

Fake poiticians are commonplace, all over the world. But fake bishops, has it...

Fake poiticians are commonplace, all over the world. But...

Michael Falzon

In Malta many tend to think that the ultimate power in the EU rests with the European Parliament but this is far from the truth

In Malta many tend to think that the ultimate power in the...

If you’re going to ‘walk out’... you may as well stay out

Raphael Vassallo

What advantage is there in having an Opposition that is all-but permanently in...

What advantage is there in having an Opposition that is...

Keep partisan politics out of Sixth Form

Josanne Cassar

It's time to stop this charade of Pulse and SDM contesting elections like mini-me politicians as they take their first tentative steps into the big...

It's time to stop this charade of Pulse and...

Saviour Balzan

Now, more than ever, it seems ever more urgent to see that a new political party, one that springs forward from the will of the people, comes forward to...

Now, more than ever, it seems ever more urgent to see that...

Press law reform is here: let’s strengthen this Bill

Mark Camilleri

Media editors must now step in and put forward their proposals when the...

Media editors must now step in and put forward their...

With more freedom, comes greater responsibility

Josanne Cassar

It is up to us in the media to constantly prove we are not only upholding the...

It is up to us in the media to constantly prove we are not...

‘Institutional reform’ is about prison, too

Raphael Vassallo

It's been 10 years since I wrote an article on the human rights,...

It's been 10 years since I wrote an article on the...

Malta is not the issue in Paradise Papers. It is the global financial system

Evarist Bartolo

Nothing is certain except death and taxes... if even. The real issue here is not Malta, it's the global financial system

Nothing is certain except death and taxes... if even. The...