Linguistic lustre
Sunday, 26 July 2020, 10:48
Last update: about 5 years ago
Charles Flores
If there is one subject I have always regretted not having studied, despite digesting plenty of books about it, is linguistics. It is such a fascinating discipline, especially to us Maltese boasting...
Château Pétrus and the 'anything goes' syndrome
Sunday, 26 July 2020, 10:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Politicians should keep a social distance from big business, always, not only during a pandemic. This was reportedly stated by George Hyzler, the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life earlier this...
And I’ll say it again: Daphne was always right
Sunday, 26 July 2020, 08:46
Last update: about 5 years ago
Victor Calleja
I’ve repeated this often enough. If it isn’t music to your ears, just flip over or don’t click on this article. It’s all Daphne Caruana Galizia’s doing. When she...
An open contest beckons
Sunday, 26 July 2020, 08:35
Last update: about 5 years ago
Noel Grima
Trying to make head and tails of what happened at the latest hard-fought, six-hour, diatribe-filled executive council meeting of the Nationalist Party is like treading through treacle. Time and...
Motivating for success
Friday, 24 July 2020, 09:26
Last update: about 5 years ago
Owen Bonnici
Throughout Europe, Ministries of Education rapidly put in place measures linked to the closure of schools and launched remote teaching initiatives to support school leaders, teachers, parents, and of...
Limbo
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 12:46
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant MEP
A friend showed me a list of wellknown cases that had reached the courts and stalled there. It’s quite a long one. It covered cases flagged by scandal about corruption, abuse of power, fraud or...
Are we reconciling employment with family life?
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 10:24
Last update: about 5 years ago
Michael Briguglio
Can we say that people in Malta are reconciling work with family life? A recent publication by the National Statistics Office (NSO) provides important data on the matter, using 2018 as the year under...
Tax on financial services
Monday, 20 July 2020, 08:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Alfred Sant MEP
The tax on financial services, labelled the financial transactions tax (FTT), has been back in the news as a tax the EU could charge in order to secure a new source of revenues. These it needs to...
Eyes Wide Shut
Sunday, 19 July 2020, 11:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
Living on a small island probably causes genetic loss. Particularly in the eyesight. Some people stop seeing things rationally, and get engulfed in an emotional vision of the world. There are many...
After the PN civil war
Sunday, 19 July 2020, 10:13
Last update: about 5 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The civil war within the PN has no end in sight. This does not only inflict considerable damage on the PN: at the end of the day it damages the whole country. The two instances of a vote of no...