The Malta Independent 14 October 2026, Wednesday
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Slow waltz or samba? My relationship with politics

Sunday, 7 June 2026, 07:00 Last update: about 5 months ago Katya De Giovanni

As I sit down to write this article, I find myself in a position of uncertainty. The election is over. The votes have been counted. Yet my political future remains unresolved. At the time of writing,...

Nifs Ġdid breathes on

Sunday, 7 June 2026, 06:52 Last update: about 5 months ago Darren Carabott

We can't say this was the result we wanted. We can't say this was the result we toiled so hard for. Yet in life, even when the result does not match your expectations, there is always a great deal of...

Political hubris

Sunday, 7 June 2026, 06:35 Last update: about 5 months ago Mark Said

In 2019, when Adrian Delia was still a democratically-elected PN leader, his message to the Nationalists was concise and very clear: "We can't be arrogant or believe we have some divine right to...

Did by any chance everybody win?

Sunday, 7 June 2026, 06:11 Last update: about 5 months ago Noel Grima

To go by the reactions on the social media, it would seem everybody won in last week's general election. Labour supporters were out celebrating but those courageous, or insane enough, who...

Greater investment

Thursday, 4 June 2026, 08:00 Last update: about 5 months ago Alfred Sant

Now that the elections are over, some plain speaking is in order. A priority in the governance agenda of coming years should be a better planning of long term public investments. Despite the...

Vacant property tax

Thursday, 4 June 2026, 07:55 Last update: about 5 months ago Mark Said

At the beginning of this year, Momentum called for a tax on the second vacant property onwards to address Malta's housing affordability crisis. This renewed call came about in light of the fact that...

Malta’s price of a permanent gridlock

Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 07:16 Last update: about 5 months ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Malta keeps adding cars faster than it adds roads, schools, or sense. The National Statistics Office (NSO) confirmed in February 2026 that the licensed vehicle stock grew by a net 35 vehicles every...

Top institution

Monday, 1 June 2026, 09:56 Last update: about 5 months ago Alfred Sant

In everyday chitchat, many have become used to dismissing Parliament as an irrelevance... as a talkshop, where decisions already taken behind closed doors elsewhere, simply get rubberstamped. At one...

Even opinion polls must be transparent

Sunday, 31 May 2026, 08:15 Last update: about 6 months ago Carmel Cacopardo

When reading through today's edition of this newspaper whether online or otherwise, we will be waiting for the first indication of the general election result. The large political parties are...

The empty promises of demagogues

Sunday, 31 May 2026, 08:11 Last update: about 6 months ago Kevin Cassar

On the eve of a general election Robert Abela had the brass neck to claim before the gathered crowd that "We have the credibility to deliver what we promise".  We know what they...

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