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Don’t answer that phone! Can the always-on culture be beat? Malta will pioneer a law that gives workers the right not to answer work emails and calls after hours, but always-on culture can be hard to beat in the Maltese workplace 29 January 2021, 6:54am by Laura Calleja Labour MEP Alex Agius Saliba’s report on the right to disconnect comes at the tapering of the shock pandemic that changed lives in 2020 and sent everyone ‘home’. Now working from home, flexi- and telework makes the always-on culture a fact of life. And yet, being reachable by smartphone at any second has blurred the b...

Speedy Gulia (aka 'The fastest resignation in the West')... Speedy Gulia has decided to apply his Superhero skills to the one area that arguably needs them least. Why? Is it because – as implied by the Opposition’s doubts – Robert Abela wanted someone else in his Parliamentary group, at this particular time… Raphael Vassallo 19 January 2021, 7:52am Gavin Gulia And to think that people still complain about the lack of a resignation culture in this country (and, worse still, to think that I myself was one of them, until fairly recently…) I don’t know. Looking back, it’s almost as...

Looking back at 2020 | Gloomy 2020 leaves PL ahead in the polls A look back at the MaltaToday survey results shows that the Labour Party retained a strong lead over the Nationalist Party in 2020 but Bernard Grech’s coming dented the armour. Kurt Sansone reports 28 December 2020, 7:40am by Kurt Sansone Robert Abela became prime minister in January on the back of a political crisis that rocked the Labour administration to its core. The incoming prime minister had to deal with the fallout that saw Joseph Muscat step out of Castille in January and eventually resign from parliament in October. ...

Mark Camilleri, since 2013 the executive chairperson of the National Book Council, certainly has a way with words.  His outspokenness on social media is legendary, not least for being one of the few, if not only, critics of the same Labour government he has actively supported in 2013 and 2017. He has been active inside the party through the Senglea branch as recently as the last Labour election. But, as  one of the ‘critical-Left’ members of the Maltese political landscape, Camilleri has been unique in that, as a State-paid functionary hand-picked by former education minister Evaris...

Mark Camilleri, beholder of ‘a brown Marxist ass’, is Labour’s abrasive conscience Mark Camilleri has a lot of sharp corners, but his social contribution far outstrips the inelegance of an online tiff with a criminal defence lawyer 17 December 2020, 9:08am by Matthew Vella It beggars belief as to how a foul-mouthed social media exchange could warrant instant resignation from the public service, when for years the Labour government resisted sacking the men caught operating a secret offshore network of private companies. Mark Camilleri – self-confessed beholder of a “brown Marxist as...