It’s official, folks! Roberta Metsola has finally made up her mind
Raphael Vassallo
Not-News | She’s going for Bernard’s job, all right! And here are five moments from her speech, which prove it beyond any reasonable doubt
Has ‘foreigner’ become a derogatory term?
Josanne Cassar
Ask them how it feels to adjust to a new country and whether they were made to feel welcome or whether they are still considered in the category of 'those bloody...
Cartoon: 24 September 2023

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

The Archbishop’s provocation

Scicluna questioned whether we Maltese have gone from being ‘the colonised to the colonisers’, highlighting how foreign workers in low-income jobs...

Scicluna questioned whether we Maltese have gone from being...

STAR WARS Episode XXXVIII: ‘Joseph Portelli Strikes Back!’
Raphael Vassallo

Not-News | And on what grounds was he ‘eligible’ to play for Hamrun...

Not-News | And on what grounds was he...

Failure is not an option: Malta’s waste management crisis | Martin Galea De Giovanni

Managing our waste should not start at the point from when the waste is already generated but from the point of manufacturing, down to the supply chain and...

Managing our waste should not start at the point from when...

Labour upskilling: An opportunity to boost our economic model | Steve Ellul

A further increment on this top-up would make it more attractive for these skilled employees to remain in employment

A further increment on this top-up would make it more...

What’s ‘love’ got to do with (Malta’s plummeting EU relations?)
Raphael Vassallo

There: not so ‘melodramatic’ after all, is it now...?

There: not so ‘melodramatic’ after all, is it...

Cancelling black and brown faces: Identità’s disservice to an inclusive Malta
James Debono

‘Everyone has a story to tell… we make it official’ the video clip touted as a rebranding of Identity Malta Agency proclaimed. Everyone...

‘Everyone has a story to tell… we make it...

The Y-plates saga: The law of the jungle benefits no one

The onus is on the authorities to ensure Malta has a cab sector that is...

The onus is on the authorities to ensure Malta has a cab...

What’s the point of ‘National Strategy Plans’... if we never actually implement any of them?
Raphael Vassallo

Naturally, this leaves us with the most imponderable question of them all. If government itself doesn’t take its own ‘National Strategy...

Naturally, this leaves us with the most imponderable...

Inflation here to stay
Michael Falzon

This happened after last year’s record COLA increase and it will happen again this year

This happened after last year’s record COLA increase...

‘Speak to someone, they will arrange it for you’
Josanne Cassar

The reality is that it is never worth the risk because inevitably, it will...

The reality is that it is never worth the risk because...

Cartoon: 17 September 2023

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

A case for EU strategic autonomy

Buying an electric vehicle is still a very costly venture, even with the generous government scheme that covers part of the cost for consumers

Buying an electric vehicle is still a very costly venture,...

The Prime Minister who cried: ‘It’s the Wollof! It’s the Wollof!’
Raphael Vassallo

Like Lambkin, Prime Minister Robert Abela will very soon discover the ultimate limits of his own credibility... if he hasn’t done that, already

Like Lambkin, Prime Minister Robert Abela will very soon...

The hardworking middle class needs a morale booster

Caruana’s next budget must provide the ray of hope that allows...

Caruana’s next budget must provide the ray of hope...

With the EU’s new media law, TVM will be reduced to ‘The Teleshopping Channel’...
Raphael Vassallo

I thought the European Parliament must have finally run out of things to meddle with, when it comes to how individual member states choose to govern their own,...

I thought the European Parliament must have finally run out...

Looks like organised crime
Michael Falzon

This was certainly an organised system and as the president of the Medical Association of Malta put it, the scheme does look like being an organised crime on...

This was certainly an organised system and as the president...

How to steal from the State
Saviour Balzan

If we want people to feel guilty if they steal from the State, we have to have a political class that is up there in the morality quotient. We are far from...

If we want people to feel guilty if they steal from the...