The Malta Independent 18 July 2026, Saturday
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But they’re worse

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 08:58 Last update: about 3 years ago Kevin Cassar

Robert Abela keeps scraping the bottom of the barrel. He's now thought up a new line of defence in the face of fierce public rage.  His obstinate refusal to take action against the two ministers...

The Labour Party cannot undo the mess of its own doing

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 08:57 Last update: about 3 years ago Darren Carabott

What we are seeing happening within the Labour Party is nothing but an unprecedented crisis. In any other developed European country, the current situation would have driven government to take serious...

Holding government to account

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 08:18 Last update: about 3 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Parliament derives its authority in virtue of its representative nature. This is a constitutional principle enshrined in the 1215 Magna Carta between John, King of England, and his rebellious barons....

A far cry from Helsinki

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 08:13 Last update: about 3 years ago Noel Grima

Malta hosted the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe annual summit this week, though it hardly noticed. I am writing this on Thursday morning and the readers will be able to...

A false perception

Sunday, 8 December 2024, 07:16 Last update: about 3 years ago Mark Said

We are not any more gullible than any other nation or electorate. Fortunately, our country being so small and so many people leaving it, many of us are well-informed about the world beyond its...

50 extraordinary years

Friday, 6 December 2024, 10:18 Last update: about 3 years ago Owen Bonnici

It's been 50 years since Sir Anthony Mamo, a Maltese, one of us, became Head of State. Before, it was a British monarch who held this role. On the 13th of December 1974, that changed, and Malta...

Investment?

Thursday, 5 December 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

The word investment has a precise meaning. Broadly speaking, it refers to those funds that get spent on raw materials, equipment and technological knowhow which add up to launch projects meant to...

End of the war?

Monday, 2 December 2024, 08:00 Last update: about 3 years ago Alfred Sant

The person nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to run American policy regarding the Ukraine war wrote a report earlier this year to describe how the US should act to end this war. According to...

Quantum leap in Labour’s ethical standards!

Sunday, 1 December 2024, 14:54 Last update: about 3 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The political class currently in office is not capable of practising what it preaches. It is no wonder that this country has long gone to the dogs. The debate in the Parliamentary Select...

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