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Muzzling educators | Daniel Xerri

Just like Said’s intellectuals, their role 'is not to consolidate authority, but to understand, interpret, and question it'

Is Europe losing the AI arms race?

Alexiei Dingli

AI is not just a race to the top in terms of innovation—it’s also about who sets the rules of the game. In this sense, Europe may not need to ‘win’ the AI...

Saviour Balzan

I have never had time for pretenders who pose as independent journalists, but are nothing more than ambitious political animals who relish in the art of...

I have never had time for pretenders who pose as...

Saviour Balzan

In his latest video blog, MaltaToday’s managing editor Saviour Balzan insists that his article on Adrian Delia's publicly-declared assets was by no...

In his latest video blog, MaltaToday’s managing...

Josanne Cassar

While I still prefer living in Malta to anywhere else, admittedly the negatives tend to assault your senses on too regular a basis. I boil it...

While I still prefer living in Malta to anywhere else,...

The island that turned itself into a desert

Raphael Vassallo

We are, in brief, doing our utmost to make this country as hot, parched and...

We are, in brief, doing our utmost to make this country as...

Marco Bonnici

MUT appointments mark a number of firsts in the long history of the union, including the first female general secretary and also, with two females and two male...

MUT appointments mark a number of firsts in the long...

Evarist Bartolo

Ways for the public to openly air their views are crucial in today’s democracy [but] sometimes the wrong information… is put forward and common...

Ways for the public to openly air their views are crucial...

Raphael Vassallo

Personally, I think the Borg Pisani story is not only a very good choice of movie subject but an important one to evaluate through the medium of a Maltese-made...

Personally, I think the Borg Pisani story is not only a...

Mark Camilleri

With a public broadcaster in shambles and cultural institutions under the management of incompetent people, V18 will come and go and will leave no tangible...

With a public broadcaster in shambles and cultural...

Michael Falzon

People on subsidised rents should be means-tested every five years or so with their rent increasing as their level of income increases. Minor increases for...

People on subsidised rents should be means-tested every...

Josanne Cassar

This convoluted case has brought into play a very crucial element on which everything hinges: credibility

This convoluted case has brought into play a very crucial...

Saviour Balzan

He has said that he will present his declaration of assets after becoming leader. That, I am afraid, is unacceptable. The truth is that his assets and...

He has said that he will present his declaration of assets...

Saviour Balzan

In his latest video blog, MaltaToday’s managing editor Saviour Balzan tackles the latest court revelations surrounding the Egrant whistleblower and the...

In his latest video blog, MaltaToday’s managing...

After ISIS, proxy wars in Syria loom large

Matthew Bugeja

Syria is now an arena for proxy conflict between the West, Russia, and Middle...

Syria is now an arena for proxy conflict between the West,...

What’s the point of ‘more studies’ if you ignore their results?

Raphael Vassallo

Any particular reason to assume a ‘new’ sociological study,...

Any particular reason to assume a ‘new’...

How one Swedish woman is cleaning up Malta

Josanne Cassar

What I would really like to see is politicians coming to the clean-up, to see...

What I would really like to see is politicians coming to...

It won’t always be sunshine and rainbows

Evarist Bartolo

One of the first barriers to be torn down in alternative learning programmes is...

One of the first barriers to be torn down in alternative...

Frank Psaila

Leadership contests are not popularity contests. Substance, vision, values are what PN activists should be after when choosing their next leader

Leadership contests are not popularity contests. Substance,...

Raphael Vassallo

We can’t be selective about which public street brawls to be appalled by

We can’t be selective about which public street...