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A race to the bottom

Friday, 29 August 2025, 08:05 Last update: about 12 months ago Owen Bonnici

Like an exhausted traveller, the Nationalist Party limps after 12 catastrophic years in opposition. Following the heavy defeat in 2013, the PN chose not to change - with fatal electoral consequences...

Artificial intelligence

Thursday, 28 August 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 12 months ago Alfred Sant

The dollar amounts being spent on the development of artificial intelligences are vast and keep growing. The huge US communications technology companies are in a big race between them to move fastest....

A pension predicament: A chronicle of two birth years

Thursday, 28 August 2025, 07:35 Last update: about 12 months ago Emmanuel J. Galea

In the current PN leadership contest, Alex Borg has attempted to set himself up as a champion of pensioners. In a recent Facebook post, Borg, a younger candidate, stated that a PN under his leadership...

A party on life support

Monday, 25 August 2025, 09:10 Last update: about 12 months ago Emmanuel J. Galea

The Nationalist Party resembles a patient bedridden for over a decade. The decline began after 2013, when the defeat of Lawrence Gonzi left the party in shock and without direction. Since then, every...

The secular state

Monday, 25 August 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 12 months ago Alfred Sant

Although the Constitution still says that Malta's religion is Catholic, in a general way there is political consensus that the state should be run along secular principles like the rest (or almost) of...

Sea transport for Marsaskala?

Sunday, 24 August 2025, 08:54 Last update: about 12 months ago Carmel Cacopardo

The proposal by the Minister for Transport to link Marsaskala to a sea transport network is worth considering. It could make sense as part of a well thought out transport master plan. As a stand-alone...

A missed opportunity

Sunday, 24 August 2025, 08:29 Last update: about 11 months ago Kevin Cassar

Francine Farrugia, a PN Siggiewi councillor and former PN general election candidate, was charged with embezzling €2.3 million euro from MCAST. She denied a raft of fraud and accountancy charges....

Spending public money wisely

Sunday, 24 August 2025, 08:28 Last update: about 12 months ago Frans Camilleri

The current strategy of the Maltese government is succeeding in restoring public debt sustainability, albeit perhaps too slowly, and maintaining macroeconomic stability in the context of an economic...

Gozo’s golden crown must shine forever

Sunday, 24 August 2025, 08:20 Last update: about 11 months ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Fifty years have passed since the people of Gozo placed a golden crown on the head of the titular painting of the Assumption in the Cathedral. That day united the island in faith, pride, and gratitude...

Eve of destruction. Is it?

Sunday, 24 August 2025, 08:13 Last update: about 11 months ago Valerie Visanich

Some days it feels like we're living permanently on the brink. Newspaper feeds and Facebook scrolls are like an endless obituary wall. Overnight, accidents and tragedies rob lives without warning. The...

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