At first glance, this is definitely a budget with a heart and one which pursues stability. The main challenge is how to address the longer-term vision of enhancing productivity...
Whilst the government announces various policies, schemes, and strategies during the year, the budget is still seen as a central economic policy document which lays out the action...
The reason for all this traffic? It’s not my car, it’s yours
It may not be what everyone wants to hear, but sometimes you have to sacrifice...
It may not be what everyone wants to hear, but sometimes...
Nice guy Karmenu. But Mifsud Bonnici as PM was a fiasco
No matter what the obituaries will say, as a politician Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici...
No matter what the obituaries will say, as a politician...
There is nothing ‘pagan’ (still less, ‘satanic’) about Halloween
Nearly all the Catholic Church’s most cherished festivals (including both Christmas and Easter) can also trace their origins to the same pagan traditions...
Nearly all the Catholic Church’s most cherished...
Road rage rules OK
In Malta, the constant unlimited increase in cars on our roads has led to many drivers getting impatient while driving in a slow-moving column –...
In Malta, the constant unlimited increase in cars on our...
What happened to that Public Domain Act, by the way?
All along, however: it is a stage which we would quite simply never have...
All along, however: it is a stage which we would quite...
Silly me to think a recusal would not be fair play at all...
In the long list of defamation cases I have received and the few I have...
In the long list of defamation cases I have received and...
How did we manage to live our lives before social media?
Social media has been a wonderful tool in so many ways, but in the wrong hands...
Social media has been a wonderful tool in so many ways, but...
Glaciers in the Alps melting faster than ever – 2022 was their worst summer yet | Neil Entwistle
The new flurries of snow will form a protective blanket to shield and reflect 90% of the sun’s radiation back into the atmosphere and limits the warming...
The new flurries of snow will form a protective blanket to...
Abela: come clean on media freedom
While in Malta we need to see through a media reform which truly protects journalists, in Brussels the European Commission has presented a new law to ensure...
While in Malta we need to see through a media reform which...
A Mosque too far?
… but never – not even once – was this concern with ‘increased traffic’, and ‘worsening air pollution’, sufficient...
… but never – not even once – was this...
A social budget nonetheless | Michael Falzon
To those who doubted that the current international turbulence shall in anyway...
To those who doubted that the current international...
Lack of parental discipline has led to the ‘no children allowed’ rule
The need for discipline has been watered down and diluted to such an extent, that it is no wonder so many are horrified when a family with a gaggle of kids...
The need for discipline has been watered down and diluted...
Praise me – when I am gone
Arrigo turned out to be an asset for the PN, for he was a simple and ordinary Nationalist from Sliema seeking to represent his constituency, who could garner...
Arrigo turned out to be an asset for the PN, for he was a...
It’s Budget day again
I may be a pessimist, but I somewhat feel that this year’s budget will not be giving details of a new sober and well-thought-out economic model that...
I may be a pessimist, but I somewhat feel that this...
Oh look: another ‘European Parliament resolution’, for us to ignore…
And if the European Commissioner, no less, can simply ignore the European Parliament at will, without facing any form of consequence … I, for one, fail...
And if the European Commissioner, no less, can simply...
Daphne and our ‘dark underbelly’
Daphne should – and will – however, be remembered for her steadfast search for the truth behind the corrupt wheeling and dealing that went into...
Daphne should – and will – however, be...
Agriculture will suffer a slow death if we fail to act boldly | Anton Refalo
Fundamentally, the resolution acknowledged the responsibility of the State to intervene on the market to ensure the preservation of agricultural land,
Fundamentally, the resolution acknowledged the...
‘We’re all human’ (but some of us are more human than others)
If even a self-styled ‘Labour stalwart’ like Desmond Zammit Marmara...
If even a self-styled ‘Labour stalwart’ like...
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