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Conscience, MPs, and the abortion law

Sunday, 22 January 2023, 09:21 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Aquilina

Cicero once wrote that ‘we have no other rule capable of distinguishing between a good or a bad law, than our natural conscience and reason. These, however, enable us to separate justice from...

Tough with the weak

Sunday, 22 January 2023, 09:12 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

Malta has been humiliated by the European Court of Human Rights, again, thanks to Byron Camilleri. The Court ordered Malta not to hold unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in conditions that subject...

The Trojan gift

Sunday, 22 January 2023, 08:36 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Greek mythology conveys a multitude of lessons which we could do well to ponder on. One of them refers to gifts that mask a hidden, and generally destructive, agenda. One such lesson results from the...

What a scandal! 50,000 non-Maltese

Sunday, 22 January 2023, 08:07 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

That was, if I can be permitted to say so, a scandal-mongering of a header – “There are 50,000 non-Maltese on the island”. In itself it was not much of a story – it...

Putting culture into our future

Friday, 20 January 2023, 08:43 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

What do the renovation projects which transformed the former Old Abattoir (now operating as the Valletta Design Cluster), Fort St Angelo and Fort St Elmo, the Auberge d’Italie (now operating as...

They rise and stick

Thursday, 19 January 2023, 07:55 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

Prime Minister Robert Abela correctly highlighted how some businesses might be taking advantage of the current inflationary situation to up the prices of their products needlessly, or to increase...

The Ombudsman and Standards Commissioner deadlock

Thursday, 19 January 2023, 07:34 Last update: about 5 years ago Michael Briguglio

The controversy surrounding the appointment of a new Ombudsman and a Standards Commissioner smells more of partisan entrenchment than constructive politics. Neither major political party should...

Removing the stain

Monday, 16 January 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

Members of the group of socialists and democrats in the European Parliament face the problem of how they’re going to remove the stain which they have had to carry as a result of the Qatar...

A defective anti-deadlock mechanism for the Standards Commissioner

Sunday, 15 January 2023, 09:52 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Aquilina

By means of Bill No. 34 of 27 December 2022, the Standards in Public Life (Amendment) Act, 2022, government is proposing to the House of Representatives the addition of an anti-deadlock mechanism to...

New year, new routines

Sunday, 15 January 2023, 09:45 Last update: about 5 years ago Mary Muscat

The beginning of January saw the change in the household litter collection system and a new police uniform. It takes some significant adjustment to alter such the public’s staple images and...

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