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From retirement dreams to corporate schemes: the business of ageing and public funding | Edgar Galea Curmi

Unity | What is the reality of the publicly funded mass institutionalisation of older persons taking place under the guise of progress?

Lived experiences: Young and N.E.E.T. | Audrey Friggieri

Unity | This research study seeks to shed more light on NEET young people’s life worlds to inform policy decision-making about education, training, and employment during...

Raphael Vassallo

The offer of compensation for household damages incurred by last Tuesday’s power cut is demonstration that time travel really is possible

The offer of compensation for household damages incurred by...

When it is no longer fashionable to be modern

Saviour Balzan

The modern society is exemplified by our new set of values, which we can now...

The modern society is exemplified by our new set of values,...

The cathartic effect of collective mourning

Josanne Cassar

What is wrong in sharing a feeling of sorrow through social media if it helps...

What is wrong in sharing a feeling of sorrow through social...

Raphael Vassallo

If to be funny is to be sad – and Williams was undeniably a very funny man – well, the evidence for his unhappiness was there all along, staring at...

If to be funny is to be sad – and Williams was...

Ryan Callus

If local elections are not worth holding due to financial reasons, then how can you justify splurging on outrageous paychecks?

If local elections are not worth holding due to financial...

Busuttil’s ‘washing line’, Muscat’s mess and a bottleneck at the Curia

Frank Psaila

Muscat’s advisors tried to make him look like a hero, who rescued Galea from certain death, but instead made Muscat look like a reckless fool

Muscat’s advisors tried to make him look like a hero,...

Evarist Bartolo

Unlike in previous years, we will not be having one school project per year but multiple works being carried out in parallel. Not any less important is that we...

Unlike in previous years, we will not be having one school...

Public transport and public sector employment

Michael Falzon

This ministerial behaviour is completely unorthodox and utterly unacceptable....

This ministerial behaviour is completely unorthodox and...

James Debono

The reaction on the social media and elsewhere to shocking events in Iraq and Palestine exposes crass ignorance on current affairs of a society with no...

The reaction on the social media and elsewhere to...

Saviour Balzan

The Malta Employers’ Association did not deal only with hangovers, it also extended its silly concerns to sport injuries.

The Malta Employers’ Association did not deal only...

Josanne Cassar

The problem with the arbitrary list given by the MEA on what it deems as “self-inflicted” is that it is just that: arbitrary.

The problem with the arbitrary list given by the MEA on...

Raphael Vassallo

Brincat was fairly explicit in blaming 'both governments' in his irate comments at the airport on Monday: one for failing to evacuate him today, and...

Brincat was fairly explicit in blaming 'both...

Henry Frendo

Alexander Cachia Zammit was a Borg Olivier loyalist who was one of only six MPs who voted with their leader against the bill to make Malta a republic, without...

Alexander Cachia Zammit was a Borg Olivier loyalist who was...

Evarist Bartolo

We’ve seen what the major issues were and we’ve started down the road to solve them.

We’ve seen what the major issues were and we’ve...

Ryan Callus

Joseph Muscat should perhaps consider promoting Marisa Farrugia to ambassadorial level

Joseph Muscat should perhaps consider promoting Marisa...

Legitimate criticism is not anti-Semitism

Raphael Vassallo

Even here in Malta, where we have been sheltered from these realities, it is...

Even here in Malta, where we have been sheltered from these...

Saviour Balzan

The reason for ‘normal’ folk not to come out in favour of Palestine, I guess, is that rubbishing Israel is not the fashionable thing for those...

The reason for ‘normal’ folk not to come out in...

Josanne Cassar

In a real scenario happening right under our nose, what is required are concrete steps because panic, whining, finger-pointing and getting ourselves worked up...

In a real scenario happening right under our nose, what is...