Editorial: We will not let sleeping dogs lie
Sunday, 4 December 2016, 09:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) this week highlighted the fact that journalists have faced consequences both in nations where media crackdowns are common and also in...
Editorial: Will it be a Brexit 3 and Brexit 4 weekend?
Saturday, 3 December 2016, 09:59
Last update: about 10 years ago
Unnoticed by most Maltese, this weekend may well be decisive in the fortunes of the EU and thus of our country as well. The first shock to the system was on 23 June when the British electorate...
Editorial: Parliament - Testy moments
Friday, 2 December 2016, 11:22
Last update: about 10 years ago
In other circumstances, we would have said it was clear the prime minister was abroad. Now, we are not so sure. The fact remains we had some testy moments in Parliament this week. There was...
Editorial - Human rights: Stateless children is a national disgrace
Thursday, 1 December 2016, 10:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
It is nothing short of a national disgrace that the Maltese government is willing to bend over backwards and defy its agreement with the European Commission for people who are able to pay hundreds of...
Editorial: The take-over is (almost) complete
Wednesday, 30 November 2016, 09:47
Last update: about 10 years ago
The history of the Maltese Parliament has many glorious pages and many not so glorious pages. Monday was one of the latter. The meeting of the Public Accounts Committee received a letter from the...
Editorial: The nightmare has started
Tuesday, 29 November 2016, 16:10
Last update: about 10 years ago
We thought it would be bad in October once the schools started, but as anyone who was out and about on Friday can attest, we now know that the coming Christmas will be a nightmare on the...
Editorial: Come off it, you’re both ‘the establishment’
Monday, 28 November 2016, 12:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
‘The establishment’ seems to have become the catchphrase of the day in Malta, with both the country’s two main political parties having pointed accusatory fingers at each other and...
Editorial: Delimara and the Seveso Directive’s duty to inform
Sunday, 27 November 2016, 09:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
With the public consultation process on the new Delimara power station wrapping up today, there are many questions that have been left unanswered. And perhaps the most prominent of those issues that...
Editorial: Late justice, but justice
Saturday, 26 November 2016, 10:10
Last update: about 10 years ago
The long-fought battle by the Nationalist Party to get redress for a mistake that took place in the counting hall in 2013 finally obtained results with yesterday’s decision by the Constitutional...
Editorial: In Kafka country
Friday, 25 November 2016, 11:55
Last update: about 10 years ago
Someone high up must have read his Kafka. We are now living in Kafka time. This is Kafka country. So the government desirous, it said, of ensuring transparency and justice for all, decided to...