Absence and abstention
Monday, 17 September 2018, 08:00
Last update: about 7 years ago
Alfred Sant
The voting system at the European Parliament (unlike that at Malta's) allows for a three way vote: ayes, nays and abstentions. I think it's a good system. A problem however arises when an MEP...
Prime Minister in the dock
Sunday, 16 September 2018, 09:47
Last update: about 7 years ago
Noel Grima
I watched most of the European Parliament sitting on Tuesday, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the dock facing an enraged Parliament with smirks, winks and comments with his immediate...
The drummer’s call
Sunday, 16 September 2018, 09:29
Last update: about 7 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The drummer was floored. A photo on the social media depicted a drum departing from the hands of a uniformed policeman and flying in the direction of the floored drummer. Last Thursday's protest...
Huge leaps forward
Friday, 14 September 2018, 08:27
Last update: about 7 years ago
Owen Bonnici
The 2013 elections held in Malta on Saturday 9th March gave the Labour Party a majority of seats over the Nationalist Party, which had been in power since 1987, save for a short period of less than...
Harshly Partisan?
Thursday, 13 September 2018, 08:00
Last update: about 7 years ago
Alfred Sant
In Malta we are accustomed to political strife that sometimes triggers harsh acts and speeches which generate contempt and antagonism towards each other between people and groups of people. For some...
Not infatuated about the environment
Wednesday, 12 September 2018, 08:13
Last update: about 7 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
I recall with nostalgia the times my uncles, aunts and our family, would meet up in front of my parents' house and a corteo of some four or five cars would head out on an early Sunday morning to...
In Malta’s name
Sunday, 26 August 2018, 10:56
Last update: about 7 years ago
Noel Grima
The strands that make up Malta are twisted this way and that especially in mid-summer. There is, as Italian television never stops reminding us, the migrants' crisis with Italian coastguard ship...
Protecting our boys (and girls) in blue
Sunday, 26 August 2018, 10:22
Last update: about 7 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
When Police Constable Simon Schembri from the Police Traffic Section took to the witness stand earlier this week, his thoroughly descriptive testimony was shocking. It described in considerable detail...
See who’s sitting next to you
Sunday, 26 August 2018, 10:03
Last update: about 7 years ago
Charles Flores
I have a lot of sympathy for Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour leader, as he keeps being accused of anti-Semitism in the current campaign being waged against him by the right-wing tabloids. When the...
Sometimes, it’s just not appropriate to be positive
Thursday, 16 October 2014, 08:22
Last update: about 11 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
The prime minister quite obviously thinks that the most suitable attitude to adopt, as his government is mired in a slew of bad news concerning its roadmap, is a positive one. Never has he...