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Legislative changes needed

Thursday, 21 November 2024, 07:28 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

Solar access should be a right. The government must seriously consider enacting solar rights legislation. There is an urgent need to introduce a law guaranteeing the right to light. Not only did...

Fragmented

Monday, 18 November 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

Economic and social planning as it used to be done years ago is no longer practised. In a market economy, we keep being told, it is not possible to really plan. But whoever is managing a political...

That’s not a pardon

Sunday, 17 November 2024, 08:44 Last update: about 3 years ago Kevin Cassar

"This is no pardon," an angry magistrate exclaimed in court, brandishing a letter sent by the Office of the President to one of hundreds of beneficiaries of allegedly fraudulent disability...

Scraping the barrel in Robert’s Cabinet

Sunday, 17 November 2024, 08:42 Last update: about 3 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The report from the Commissioner of Standards in Public Life on Clayton Bartolo's then girlfriend, Amanda Muscat, and the report of the Auditor General on the Film Commission were published in the...

Taking the artistic sector to the next level

Sunday, 17 November 2024, 08:39 Last update: about 3 years ago Julie Zahra

It is said that when Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he replied, "then what are we fighting for?" Sadly, we're not sure if the British Prime Minister has...

Knee-jerk Robert

Sunday, 17 November 2024, 07:42 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

Or copycat. On Sunday Robert Abela had a brainwave. Speaking at a party activity at Zebbug, he announced that later this week Cabinet will discuss a new initiative that will only allow people to...

Verbal power

Sunday, 17 November 2024, 07:38 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

Communication is a key element in today's society. Words, the main means used in communicating, represent a magical power that only mankind possesses. In times gone by, it used to be said that the pen...

How about we all rob the Central Bank?

Sunday, 17 November 2024, 07:37 Last update: about 3 years ago Victor Calleja

Praise the Lord, the Lord Prime Minister, who is all forgiving, all loving, all embracing. Clayton Bartolo has apologised, so all is fine in Castille, in our gilded cage, our golden age under the...

2025: A Maltese presidency at the Council of Europe

Saturday, 16 November 2024, 09:39 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

Between May and November 2025, Malta will be the President and conduct the European Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe. It will be presiding over a body comprising 46 member states and...

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