Compromised by big business
Saviour Balzan
‘Labour’s answer to being more social and greener is through the token politics of creating miniscule gardens tucked in between unsavoury building complexes. A way of...
Union membership: a right or a duty?
Mark Said
Not long ago, the main reason behind the call for mandatory union membership used to be to find a solution to the problem of ‘free-riding’, namely the enjoyment of...
Muscat is repeating Gonzi’s divorce mistake
Raphael Vassallo

While I wasn’t expecting Muscat to be any less suspicious of direct...

While I wasn’t expecting Muscat to be any less...

Gobbledygook
Kevin-James Fenech

A decade ago, I used to think the biggest offenders were those from the IT world but recently I’ve come to the conclusion that it actually is the...

A decade ago, I used to think the biggest offenders were...

Caruana Curran’s legacy
Henry Frendo

Caruana Curran’s most didactic and lasting legacy to posterity will be that of a courageous, inspired and impartial judge, often in the face of hostility...

Caruana Curran’s most didactic and lasting legacy to...

Is Muscat’s major investment in the health sector sustainable?
Frank Psaila

Investment in the health sector is an initiative which deserves praise and...

Investment in the health sector is an initiative which...

Loving the more difficult students
Evarist Bartolo

Pope Francis referred to teaching as a beautiful profession, one that is not restricted to the time spent in the classroom

Pope Francis referred to teaching as a beautiful...

Referendum: Trust no one but yourself
James Debono

If the Yes camp wins, decisions on spring hunting will be taken by the  politicians who appeased the hunting lobby for decades. If the No camp wins the...

If the Yes camp wins, decisions on spring hunting will be...

The Opposition which cried wolf (again)
Raphael Vassallo

Personally, I shudder to think what would happen if the law courts started behaving like Busuttil today (or Sant in 1994). There would literally be no point in...

Personally, I shudder to think what would happen if the law...

What happens if they pay a price?
Saviour Balzan

My question and that of many others is very simple: Can we ignore the fact that a criminal court found Cyrus Engerer guilty?

My question and that of many others is very...

The visual and verbal cues of a debate
Josanne Cassar

Clearly, Joseph Muscat had too little respect of his adversary to defuse the growing perception that he has already become too arrogant, but Simon...

Clearly, Joseph Muscat had too little respect of his...

‘Next year’ never comes
Raphael Vassallo

Nothing breeds confidence in future success quite like a string of successive, identical failures in the past, now does it? For let’s face it: this is...

Nothing breeds confidence in future success quite like a...

The wider perspective of the European environment
Leo Brincat

We often talk of resource efficiency and the low carbon economy, but for...

We often talk of resource efficiency and the low carbon...

Two years of meritocracy, transparency and accountability… yeah, right!
Ryan Callus

Not only have we been promised that a Labour government would be transparent, but the Prime Minister went as far to state that his government is the most...

Not only have we been promised that a Labour government...

From NEETs to YEETs
Evarist Bartolo

Inactive youths lead to low income adults in the future. There are several risk factors that have to be identified and there are many individual consequences...

Inactive youths lead to low income adults in the future....

An appeal to re-think cultural policy
Mark Camilleri

Serving to all its intents and purposes as a pseudo-intellectual diatribe against populist aesthetic contempt, the Piano debate has certainly not been an...

Serving to all its intents and purposes as a...

Give wildlife a chance? No!
Raphael Vassallo

To imagine an Ornis Committee which took its decisions on the basis of the scientific data placed at its disposal – instead of to blindly rubberstamp the...

To imagine an Ornis Committee which took its decisions on...

Are we enabling young adults to be lazy?
Josanne Cassar

If kids are not “trained” from a very early age that they have to help around the house because that is what being part of a family means, then how...

If kids are not “trained” from a very early age...

The customer experience
Kevin-James Fenech

Clever branding on its own simply isn’t enough; the brand promise must be kept

Clever branding on its own simply isn’t enough;...

Error message: Total System Failure
Raphael Vassallo

What are all these scandals, exactly… if not a regular stream of subliminal error messages, sent out by a motherboard that is now so utterly riddled...

What are all these scandals, exactly… if not a...