False information
Thursday, 4 December 2025, 08:00
Last update: about 8 months ago
Alfred Sant
There is a growing (and I think correct) belief that more and more of decisions being taken are based on false information. Indeed, beyond that, programmed efforts are being sustained to spread false...
Malta’s roads don’t lie – the system collapsed
Thursday, 4 December 2025, 07:56
Last update: about 8 months ago
Emmanuel J. Galea
Malta struggles with traffic, but the genuine crisis hides in the details that shape every journey. Anyone who drives across Malta and Gozo meets the same catalogue of failure: faded lines, unlit...
Justice in fits and starts
Thursday, 4 December 2025, 07:54
Last update: about 8 months ago
Mark Said
The quality of justice is a constant and long‑standing concern of our country, as shown in particular by several regular recommendations forthcoming from stakeholders on ways of facilitating...
Promoting births
Monday, 1 December 2025, 08:00
Last update: about 9 months ago
Alfred Sant
The claim has been made frequently, with reason. The people of Malta and Gozo are "producing" less children than what is required to replenish the population. Instead the prospects are that there will...
Labour’s strategy - personal attacks
Sunday, 30 November 2025, 08:12
Last update: about 9 months ago
Kevin Cassar
Robert Abela hired Neville Gafa, a man notorious for his toxic blog, a perennial spring of offence, insults and threats. Gafa even targeted ministers in Abela's own cabinet. Previously Gafa gained...
Labour’s blueprint for social mobility – What the budget delivers
Sunday, 30 November 2025, 08:07
Last update: about 9 months ago
Katya De Giovanni
Budget 2026 has been presented as a social budget, with a long list of measures aimed at families, pensioners, persons with disability and low- to middle-income households. Beyond the speeches and...
Gozo: A courtroom in the schoolyard
Sunday, 30 November 2025, 08:06
Last update: about 9 months ago
Emmanuel J. Galea
The Downtown Hotel in Victoria awaits its next chapter. The government now wants to convert this hotel - owned by construction magnate Joseph Portelli, a man whose business circles often overlap with...
Is housing for all possible?
Sunday, 30 November 2025, 08:00
Last update: about 9 months ago
Frans Camilleri
Skyrocketing house prices and rents in Europe risk making housing unaffordable in many countries. There is alarm about the broader implications of the housing crisis, such that Eurofound has...
Video killed the radio star
Sunday, 30 November 2025, 07:58
Last update: about 9 months ago
Valerie Visanich
It's hardly the first-time technology has been cast as the villain. Just rewind to the 1980s and ask The Terminator. Back in 1984, we were already imagining a robot hitman sent from 2029...
The new PN leadership: A new dawn for Maltese politics?
Sunday, 30 November 2025, 07:57
Last update: about 9 months ago
Mark Said
The meeting between Prime Minister Robert Abela and newly elected PN leader Alex Borg at Labour headquarters appeared quite odd and surprising at a time of unparalleled political polarisation in...