The Malta Independent editorial: Wilful, deceitful, spin
Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 09:34
Last update: about 10 years ago
As soon as the details of the second release of the Panama Papers were released on Monday evening, gleeful government scriptwriters were all over the social media listing the known PN members or...
The deficit of civil society
Monday, 9 May 2016, 08:35
Last update: about 10 years ago
On Saturday civil society held its long-announced protest march to call for Konrad Mizzi’s and Keith Schembri’s resignation. The march itself was very poorly attended – some...
The Malta Independent editorial: Pull the other one Profs
Sunday, 8 May 2016, 09:30
Last update: about 10 years ago
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna was being most disingenuous on Monday when he rose in Parliament in an attempt to chastise this newspaper for apparently having had the audacity to have exposed a...
Need to have a closer look
Saturday, 7 May 2016, 09:49
Last update: about 10 years ago
One might think that the issues we are facing these days – the Panama Papers, Bank of Valletta, Nemea Bank, etc - all have a separate genesis and arise from different sectors. At the...
Editorial: The biggest loser is the prime minister
Friday, 6 May 2016, 09:44
Last update: about 10 years ago
So there it is. After two massive public protests, two votes of No Confidence in the House, which were both defeated, countless speeches, articles, controversies, comments – what are we left...
The word from the practitioners
Wednesday, 4 May 2016, 11:26
Last update: about 10 years ago
On Monday, newly re-appointed minister Manuel Mallia made a rather unusual speech in Parliament. He explained he intended to make the speech last week but then Parliament rose early and Minister...
What a tawdry outlook for the coming two years
Tuesday, 3 May 2016, 09:09
Last update: about 10 years ago
The crowd at Castille Square on Sunday loved it and lapped it up. But that was what it had come together for, after all, with flags and party emblems even though they were supposed to have been...
Grinding to a halt
Monday, 2 May 2016, 10:24
Last update: about 10 years ago
Labour has now replied with a massive crowd to the two PN protests held over the past weeks. Each soundbite by one side is being replied with a soundbite on the other. Each allegation by one...