Partisan politics
Thursday, 16 November 2017, 07:55
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
Political conduct remains partisan no matter where it’s undertaken. Partisanship changes shape according to contingencies and situations. That is what happened this week at the European...
Faces, young people and the (usual) moral panic
Wednesday, 15 November 2017, 08:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
Letting Go One of the most rewarding moments in my Deanship is that instant when you are sitting ‘on the boards’ watching the faces of the graduates immensely satisfied that they have...
If you don't listen, someone else will
Tuesday, 14 November 2017, 08:25
Last update: about 10 years ago
Gejtu Vella
While preparing to pen this piece I came across the following quote which is attributed to André Paul Guillaume Gide. “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But...
Financial services
Monday, 13 November 2017, 08:09
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
Many moons ago, the PN government wished to develop financial services as a sector of economic activity in Malta. I was among the sceptics fearing that such a development would transform Malta into a...
Spying on the PN? A retrospective from the 1930s
Monday, 13 November 2017, 08:07
Last update: about 10 years ago
Simon Mercieca
The fact that the Nationalist Party has a problem with the chief of the police force is not new in the party’s history. Nor is there anything new in the fact that the Nationalist Party is...
The victims’ story
Sunday, 12 November 2017, 09:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Noel Grima
This is a story that has not been told in the turbulent weeks after Daphne Caruana Galizia's horrific murder, except in parts. It is the story of one of Daphne's victims, the people she targeted...
From the farm to the fork
Sunday, 12 November 2017, 08:50
Last update: about 10 years ago
Carmel Cacopardo
The local vegetable and fruit supply chain was under the spotlight last month. On 12 October, environmental NGO Friends of the Earth Malta organised a round-table at Vincent's Eco-Farm at...
Things that go bump in the night
Saturday, 11 November 2017, 09:49
Last update: about 10 years ago
Rachel Borg
Efforts are coming together in a way that we have not seen before, to try to create the energy and will needed to defend our values and a way of life that is essential to freedom and well-being. ...
Women's income
Thursday, 9 November 2017, 08:02
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
That women’s income from employment compared to men’s is among the lowest in Europe, and that the divergence between the two has continued to widen in recent years, is bad news. Since...
Parties are made of people, and it’s those you have to look at
Thursday, 9 October 2014, 08:15
Last update: about 13 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Martin Scicluna, in his column in The Times, yesterday attempted to justify the dissonance between his pre-electoral advice to his readers to vote Labour, and his dismay a couple of weeks back at the...