Villa Rosa: Why political leaders should disclose their meetings with developers
James Debono
Meetings discussing changes to local plans, determining what can and cannot be approved on a particular site with the site’s owner, should be recorded and minuted in an...
Surprise me if you can
Saviour Balzan
Paying Albania or Rwanda hundreds of thousands to export migrants there to solve our so-called problems at home, reminds me of Hitler’s idea of transporting all the Jews to...
Nobody’s going to hell. We’re all angry
Saviour Balzan

Panamagate is bloody wrong, and thousands upon thousands, including yours...

Panamagate is bloody wrong, and thousands upon thousands,...

Free to express yourself, free to disagree
Josanne Cassar

You have the right to write what you like, I have the right not to like it and...

You have the right to write what you like, I have the right...

Reinforcing prejudice and stereotypes
Josanne Cassar

It so facile to be scathing and cruel about a young girl wearing a tight red T-shirt proclaiming her staunch loyalty “to the death” of a...

It so facile to be scathing and cruel about a young...

When brothers kill each other
Evarist Bartolo

The current political climate and the tone with which we deliver our speeches does not bode well for the future. We have exceeded all limitations and we are...

The current political climate and the tone with which we...

The state of Labour today
Frank Psaila

Joseph Muscat and his party strategists must go right back to the drawing board. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister is not in a listening mode.

Joseph Muscat and his party strategists must go right back...

Ruining Air Malta to win elections
Ralph Cassar

Air Malta was brought to its knees by a history of corrupt political system of favours-for-votes and rampant clientelism

Air Malta was brought to its knees by a history of corrupt...

‘As you were’
Michael Falzon

The Panama story fires people’s imagination more than Manuel Mallia’s appointment as minister of competitiveness. It could well be that Joseph...

The Panama story fires people’s imagination more than...

Let’s do the time warp again
Raphael Vassallo

Anyone outside that universe might conceivably be concerned with how a situation like Panamagate (or the equivalent in a non-political context) would pan out...

Anyone outside that universe might conceivably be concerned...

Toni should be Labour’s choice
Saviour Balzan

Muscat’s action sends a wrong message: that fiscal impropriety is tolerated. But he also presents a formula that could win him the next election, because...

Muscat’s action sends a wrong message: that fiscal...

So, is that it, then?
Josanne Cassar

The PM is failing to grasp that people hate nothing more than being taken for fools. Retaining Mizzi as a Cabinet Minister without portfolio was met with...

The PM is failing to grasp that people hate nothing more...

Hate mongering is the real threat
Ralph Cassar

A specific and particular legal definition of ‘vilification’ might be in order – to refer to hate mongering and incitement to violence

A specific and particular legal definition of...

There are more mosquitoes under Labour...
Raphael Vassallo

Attacks on Nationalist MPs? That’s a big no-no. Attacks on public...

Attacks on Nationalist MPs? That’s a big no-no....

A government that listens, selectively
Josanne Cassar

People raised their voices, even if it was only online, and for a change, the government listened. Let’s hope it continues to listen, and not just...

People raised their voices, even if it was only online, and...

Being judged for our integrity
Evarist Bartolo

Is it correct behaviour for the chairman of Malta’s financial services regulator to involve himself with such offshore outfits?

Is it correct behaviour for the chairman of Malta’s...

Don’t kill Bill 113
Mark Camilleri

The vilification of religion law is also a draconian and authoritarian law used simply and solely for the sake of protecting clerics and the Catholic religion.

The vilification of religion law is also a draconian and...

A template for social democracy, but at whose expense?
James Debono

Muscat may offer a template for social democracy according to The Economist,...

Muscat may offer a template for social democracy according...

Are we two tribes?
Michael Falzon

Claudio Grech’s comments were a breath of fresh air: Are we two tribes? No, we aren’t. And it’s about time we stop acting as if we were.

Claudio Grech’s comments were a breath of fresh air:...

Clash of the pachyderms
Raphael Vassallo

Politics and social media: We’ve been lumped with two equally clumsy and uncontrollable elephants in the same china shop: so utterly absorbed by their...

Politics and social media: We’ve been lumped with two...