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Were you cosy at home during the last national protest?

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 07:27 Last update: about 2 years ago Victor Calleja

Opinions differ but I firmly believe that demonstrations and any form of public protests, especially loud ones in piazzas and streets, do work. Whether a few or multitudes attend, the authorities...

Losing more ground

Sunday, 20 April 2025, 07:25 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

Like many I admit I was shocked last Sunday with the results of the monthly survey on MaltaToday. It showed PN losing more ground and PL regaining the majority. I was then shocked even more when...

Trusting Labour

Saturday, 19 April 2025, 05:57 Last update: about 2 years ago Owen Bonnici

Election surveys are a snapshot of the current situation in which they are taken.  Nothing more, nothing less.   I describe them as a "weather report" and they should be kept in that...

The tourist pillar

Thursday, 17 April 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

The document Vision 2050 for Malta confimrs that tourism will and should remain a pillar of the Maltese economy. It has developed on a scale which not so long ago, was unimaginable, and the aim now is...

Vision

Monday, 14 April 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

It's all very well and good to have a vision about the future of the country and also worthwhile to position it in contrast and by comparison with how other countries are moving to formulate and reach...

The justification of vigilantism

Sunday, 13 April 2025, 08:46 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Cassar

In March 1981, the 31-year-old Marianne Bachmeier shot Klaus Grabowski six times in the back during a court hearing, killing him instantly. There was no doubt that Bachmeier had murdered...

The politics of isolation: Is Gozo getting a fair deal?

Sunday, 13 April 2025, 08:45 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Gozo sits on the fringes of national conversation - its name gets mentioned in campaigns, yet it's routinely left to fend for itself. Promises made during election time flow like honey, but then the...

25 years of saving lives

Sunday, 13 April 2025, 08:41 Last update: about 2 years ago Darren Carabott

What would you take with you, if the house were on fire? It's a common mental exercise designed to determine what objects we value most in life, with the aim to perhaps extrapolate from our choices,...

Climate change: a reality ignored by Vision 2050

Sunday, 13 April 2025, 08:40 Last update: about 2 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

In the forward to Vision 2050 both Prime Minister Robert Abela and Economy Minister Silvio Schembri emphasise that the country needs a long-term vision. It is good that they have taken up...

Make jaywalking an offence

Sunday, 13 April 2025, 07:51 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

Like me, many out there must have at some time been driving when, suddenly, somebody lost in attentively looking at his mobile, decided to cross the main road without even bothering to look up to...

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