Editorial: Budget 2017 - Socially minded but ignores middle class
Tuesday, 18 October 2016, 07:35
Last update: about 11 years ago
The way the Budget Speech was written, and read, makes it extremely difficult to assess it holistically. One has to take a step back and try and get an overview to try and assess what are the Budget...
The hunting lobby’s never-ending audacity
Sunday, 16 October 2016, 09:15
Last update: about 11 years ago
How dare the government give rural areas to children instead of hunters? This was the gist of the reaction of the country’s main hunting lobby yesterday to the news that the government has...
Another art controversy blows up
Saturday, 15 October 2016, 09:42
Last update: about 11 years ago
Every so many years, our community gets a sudden, big, explosion of an art controversy and, while not being experts in the field, we enjoy seeing so many eminent persons squabbling like mud wrestlers,...
Getting help to police the roads
Friday, 14 October 2016, 14:07
Last update: about 11 years ago
Most people would by now have seen the horrific video of a Terios overtaking a car which was already on the inside lane, getting almost overturned in the process, and then whizzing out at a suicidal...
The Malta Independent editorial: Lest we forget
Tuesday, 11 October 2016, 09:42
Last update: about 11 years ago
We have some more questions regarding this issue of Beppe Fenech Adami and the company he is alleged to have been involved with. Let us start from basics: the MaltaToday report alleges that...
The Malta Independent Editorial: Short-circuit justice
Monday, 10 October 2016, 09:24
Last update: about 11 years ago
Let’s see if we can get this right. MaltaToday, a paper that is, let’s say, close in ideology to that of the ruling party, comes out with a story that heavily implies the Deputy...
Editorial: A not too fond farewell to criminal libel
Sunday, 9 October 2016, 11:30
Last update: about 11 years ago
With Parliament reconvening tomorrow and with the government planning, as one of its first acts of the new parliamentary season, to abolish the legal concept of criminal libel, we would like to bid a...