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This latest conversion therapy storm

Wednesday, 24 February 2016, 07:37 Last update: about 11 years ago

Like a storm in a summer sky, the latest debate on what is known as conversion therapy has hit this country when it least expected it. It is quite strange this controversy was occasioned by a...

We are not on the sidelines

Tuesday, 23 February 2016, 11:20 Last update: about 11 years ago

The conclusion of what is now being called the EU’s Brexit Council and the announcement of an In-Out referendum to be held in the UK later on this year might seem to many Maltese as something...

Editorial: Labour’s transport reform is not working

Monday, 22 February 2016, 08:16 Last update: about 11 years ago

The weekend papers were full of articles telling in greater or less details how the public transport reform led by Minister Joe Mizzi is not working.  Things have come to the point that people...

Editorial: Immediate action required, again

Sunday, 21 February 2016, 09:30 Last update: about 11 years ago

It has been barely a month since the publication of the damning National Audit Office report on the Old Mint Street scandal. That report pointed to collusion in a case which involved the handing out...

Enforcement: The long arm of the law

Saturday, 20 February 2016, 10:16 Last update: about 12 years ago

Europe has been in throes of great debate about putting Schengen rules on hold in the face of the never abating human tide of people that is trying to make its way into Europe from Syria and other...

David’s Rubicon

Thursday, 18 February 2016, 10:19 Last update: about 11 years ago

If everybody keeps to the timetable, the EU Council will discuss the British question today and, hopefully, the British Cabinet will discuss the situation at a special extraordinary Cabinet meeting on...

Racist threats: Zero tolerance

Thursday, 18 February 2016, 09:26 Last update: about 12 years ago

When a Facebook user this week commented that MEP Roberta Metsola ‘should be shot’, many passed it off as a triviality. It is, after all, an everyday expression that should not be taken...

Summit: A critical juncture for the EU

Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 07:44 Last update: about 12 years ago

EU President Donald Tusk certainly has his work cut out for him. Only days before a critical summit which could radically alter the functioning of the bloc. The massive issue at stake is, of course,...

Law and order: Keeping the Police Corps in shape

Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 08:49 Last update: about 12 years ago

Malta has one of the oldest police forces in the world, in large, thanks to the colonial period. This is a throwback to the fact that the UK had established a highly professional and well funded corps...

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