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The Maltese summer

Thursday, 31 July 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 13 months ago Alfred Sant

A friend who like me also carries the load of many years on his back said: I don't understand why they make all the fuss that has become so widespread, about how hot the weather has become. I always...

The loss of manufcaturing

Monday, 28 July 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

If there's one issue about which I sympathise with the aims of the Trump administration in the US, it's the importance Trump attaches to manufacturing industry, both in terms of the national interest...

Helping you kill yourself

Sunday, 27 July 2025, 08:25 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Cassar

Wednesday 2 July marked the end of the period for public consultation on the possible introduction of assisted suicide, which Labour calls euthanasia. "Numerous", "voluminous" submissions were...

Manikata’s broken artery threatens every journey to Gozo

Sunday, 27 July 2025, 08:23 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Drivers proceed through the quiet outskirts of Żebbiegħ, crest the ridge that watches over Golden Bay, loop round the resort roundabout, skim the cliff above Għajn Tuffieħa,...

The Maltese government: a bystander to genocide

Sunday, 27 July 2025, 08:22 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Aquilina

The Maltese government is a bystander to genocide as it remains completely passive and totally indifferent to the genocide of the Gazans by the state of Israel. The Maltese government is perfectly...

From heat waves to flooding: time to get serious

Sunday, 27 July 2025, 08:13 Last update: about 2 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The current heat wave is a clear indication that the earth is heating up at an ever-increasing rate. The 1.5-degree Celsius limit above pre-industrial global mean temperature level agreed to at the...

Reminisces of a former public prosecutor (part 1)

Sunday, 27 July 2025, 07:21 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

Being retired now and obviously having more time on my hands than I could ever find in my heydays as a practicing lawyer, I am enjoying the luxury of catching up on reading a plethora of books and...

Incompetence rules

Sunday, 27 July 2025, 07:20 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

So they finally admitted their own incompetence and they did it in the worst possible way. After the social media had been inundated with photos of tourists peeing in a garage entry across the...

State of the happy nation: tal-biki

Sunday, 27 July 2025, 07:19 Last update: about 2 years ago Victor Calleja

The title of this article breaks a sacred rule: don't use Maltese in an article written in English. But rules are there to be broken, and in Malta the rule now is: shatter all rules as no one really...

A gem in the Capital

Friday, 25 July 2025, 08:07 Last update: about 2 years ago Owen Bonnici

At the heart of our capital city, Valletta, is the Grand Master's Palace, a gem of a building with an illustrious history.  You must have walked in front of it countless times but may never...

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