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Over-tourism: is it worth it?

Sunday, 6 July 2025, 08:05 Last update: about 2 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Too many tourists are flocking to these islands. Many more, in fact, than makes sense. Everywhere is overcrowded. It is the same all over most of Southern Europe. Malta is not an exception. Protests...

The rising phenomenon of ‘situationship’

Sunday, 6 July 2025, 07:15 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

We might be legitimately right in boasting that we are the leading nation when it comes to LGBTQIA+ rights, but did we ever stop to think for a moment whether these may be going too far with...

And then they were two, but what if there remained only one?

Sunday, 6 July 2025, 07:10 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

So now all that the once-mighty Nationalist Party could come up with were only two candidates. On to the next stage. While the applications to be the next leader were received by one commission,...

A very busy summer

Friday, 4 July 2025, 10:20 Last update: about 2 years ago Owen Bonnici

Adrian Delia and Alex Borg are vying for the top post at the Nationalist Party. Following the abrupt resignation of Bernard Grech, few were willing to throw their names into the hat, and only Delia...

Values in the abstract

Thursday, 3 July 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

It is always puzzling how people who promote a belief in absolute values prefer to go on speaking about them in abstract terms on two levels. They claim that such values always were there because they...

Public domain going private

Wednesday, 2 July 2025, 09:56 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

In 2016, a supposedly "revolutionary" public domain law, submitted as a private member's Bill by the Opposition, was unanimously approved and enacted. It aimed for a legacy that both sides of the...

Among the best

Monday, 30 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

Perhaps after all, the dissatisfaction one feels at the decline in the importance of manufacturing  industry since the 1960's and 1970's can be attributed to nothing better than nostalgia. For at...

The world’s poorest leader

Sunday, 29 June 2025, 08:32 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Cassar

"No, I'm not poor.  Poor are those who always want more... because they're in an endless race". That was Jose Mujica, Uruguay's former socialist president who passed away on 13 May 2025,...

Tista’ taħdem magħna, for real

Sunday, 29 June 2025, 08:15 Last update: about 2 years ago Julie Zahra

A few days ago I was shopping with my seven-year-old daughter in one of Malta's shopping centres, when a middle-aged man I didn't know, with an apparent penchant for a laugh, cheekily shouted 'Viva...

Sentiment or spin? Taking Gozo’s economic pulse

Sunday, 29 June 2025, 08:14 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

The latest Gozo Business Sentiment Survey, published by the Gozo Regional Development Authority (GRDA) and the Gozo Business Chamber (GBC) provided positive news to media. Thirty percent of...

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