
75 years of the George Cross on the flag - do we still need a Colonial war medal?
Mystique of monarchy and Maltese identity are challenged by historian

Sorting out our labour market - Peter Agius
In 2018 alone, over 12,000 workers from outside the European Union received a permit to work in Malta. The number...

EU27 takes care of its own - Bernard Gauci
To an outsider following the Brexit debates in the House of Commons, the unrelenting attacks by Tory backbenchers...

Question time: Flying high
Will the PA executive chairman go scot-free now that the Ombudsman has lambasted his decision to hire a private jet?

Turning the tide together - Joe Zahra
The Nationalist Party is a great party that always produced great leaders with foresight and love for country....

Abortion: religion and logic - Frank Salt
The subject of abortion is a very difficult, delicate and a personal matter. I can never know or begin to...

Pension enhancements in the best of times - Michael Falzon
Michael Briguglio’s article ‘Pension cuts in the best of times’ (February 18) tries to give the...

Are we missing the buck? - Frank Psaila and Justin Schembri
When the Malta Union of Teachers published the results of an internal survey conducted among its members, the...

Civil society: flourishing opuntia? - Benjamin Dalli
The opuntia ficus-indica may have originated several time zones away, yet the prickly pear, an alien species,...

European spending audit - John Consiglio
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) is probably that EU institution which, possibly because it works in silence...

The spiritual penthouse - Ranier Fsadni
No one is more conventional than a wild-eyed rock star smashing his guitar on stage. Nothing is more...

A new cancer factory - Hermann Schiavone
Successive governments over the years have dumped national projects and industries in the south of the island....

Backstop steeped in history - Martin Scicluna
For five intensive years, between 1985 and 1989, I was responsible for advising ministers in the Ministry of...

The truth is worth it - Fr Joe Borg
News coverage is not about ‘bothsidism’, described by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman as “the...

The Beatitudes, stupid - Tony Mifsud
It was reported that according to the Church 2017 census, catholic Mass attendance (in Malta) is set to collapse...

An investment in peace - Kathryne Bomberger
The response of some governments to the migration issue has been to focus on deterrence – policing the...

The true popular party - Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici
In my last contribution to this newspaper, I had affirmed that our Nationalist Party has an identifying character...

Pension cuts in best of times - Michael Briguglio
A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat warned that if Malta does not want more foreigners it can say...

Deconstructing myths - Ivan Falzon
It’s not normal for me to involve myself in public discussions but after some days of thinking and without...

What your car says about you - Kristina Chetcuti
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the rudest of us all? That’s a hard question to answer, but at...