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If everything is celebrated as a milestone, then real milestones become meaningless

Josanne Cassar

New, frankly, absurd trends seem to mushroom all over the place

The EU is losing its relevance. Draghi is right

JP Fabri

Draghi’s speech deserves to be read not just as commentary, but as an obituary of a Europe that believed its size, ideals, and integration were enough to guarantee global...

Raphael Vassallo

… well, is there any reason under the sun why any of us should take his second belated realisation, any more seriously than the first?

… well, is there any reason under the sun why any of...

Money for nothing? It’s a rich man’s world

Josanne Cassar

Unlike so many countries where university students voice their concerns...

Unlike so many countries where university students...

Media reform: setting the record straight

Saviour Balzan

At every stage of the reform, it was clear that the prerogative of what gets...

At every stage of the reform, it was clear that the...

Delivering the promise of media reform | Jonathan Attard

These ground-breaking and innovative amendments will enshrine the duty to...

These ground-breaking and innovative amendments will...

Renee Laiviera

Around 30% of women worldwide aged 15 years and older have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or...

Around 30% of women worldwide aged 15 years and older have...

The impact of the shrinking household on the environment | Rachael Scicluna

Rachael Scicluna | The phenomenon of one-person households and alternative living arrangements are now becoming urgent matters in policy terms due to their...

Rachael Scicluna | The phenomenon of one-person households...

It would take more than just a ‘new pronoun’ for Maltese to become gender-neutral

Raphael Vassallo

Everything, from tables, to chairs, to trees, to clouds, to body-parts, is effectively ‘genderless’ in the English language. In...

Everything, from tables, to chairs, to trees, to clouds, to...

Lessons in democracy, from Vladimir Putin…

Raphael Vassallo

While the rest of the world – including Malta’s government, and...

While the rest of the world – including Malta’s...

Michael Falzon

Does this venture into competition with private enterprise – by providing the consumer with commercial catering facilities in WSC premises – have...

Does this venture into competition with private enterprise...

Who’s really running this country anyway?

Josanne Cassar

No one seems willing to take the bull by the horns and really take charge of...

No one seems willing to take the bull by the horns and...

Saviour Balzan

Bernard Grech cannot win a game of dominoes, let alone an election

Bernard Grech cannot win a game of dominoes, let alone an...

Russia’s reliance on mercenaries in Ukraine points to the weakness of its military

The Conversation

Christopher Michael Faulkner | Russia is now on the defensive in Ukraine’s northeast. And one important dynamic in the lead-up to Ukraine’s...

Christopher Michael Faulkner | Russia is now on the...

If Giorgia Meloni is a ‘fascist’… what’s Malta’s entire political establishment?

Raphael Vassallo

What are we to say about Meloni’s approach towards immigration, that it actually falls far short of the extremes that both Labour and PN have gone...

What are we to say about Meloni’s approach towards...

Julia Farrugia

In the past, paying lip service often led to disappointment and frustration among those working in the disability sector as well as those persons with a...

In the past, paying lip service often led to disappointment...

Peter Agius

It is of no surprise to hear rumours in the Brussels ‘radio moquette’ that actors of the Maltese government are already looking for arguments to...

It is of no surprise to hear rumours in the Brussels...

Collective punishment for hunters? Inconceivable!

Raphael Vassallo

I mean, honestly: how much more 'absolutely, totally and in all other ways...

I mean, honestly: how much more 'absolutely, totally...

Isabel Stabile

Each of us can hold a pro-choice position but be personally anti-abortion for themselves

Each of us can hold a pro-choice position but be personally...

Josanne Cassar

What I found interesting about the Queue was that it had obviously become something more than just paying homage to a beloved Queen - it finally clicked...

What I found interesting about the Queue was that it...