A living wage instead of electoral gimmicks
Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:44
Last update: about 3 months ago
Carmel Cacopardo
Yesterday ADPD - The Green Party approved its electoral manifesto. It is not a supermarket list of what is on offer for your vote. It is an alternative vision, a proposal for the development of an...
The future is bright, and it's time to make the necessary change
Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:23
Last update: about 3 months ago
Darren Carabott
We have a tendency to measure success in numbers. And for good reason, because numbers, to a great degree, are absolute and can hardly be argued with. Yet numbers, as objective as they may be, can...
A campaign centred around you
Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:18
Last update: about 3 months ago
Alicia Bugeja Said
The first days of the Labour Party's 2026 election campaign have unfolded with a clarity of purpose that is both strategic and deeply human. Reading through the list of measures proposed, one senses a...
Paint it, Black
Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:11
Last update: about 3 months ago
Valerie Visanich
Well, The Rolling Stones had their own reasoning for painting it black, but surely this is not applied here and now. Â Released exactly 60 years ago, on 13 May 1966, The Rolling Stones looked at...
Why has Malta not achieved OECD membership?
Sunday, 10 May 2026, 07:08
Last update: about 3 months ago
Gejtu Vella
Malta is not currently a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a body of 38 countries that collaborate to promote economic growth, prosperity, and sustainable...
Puerile politics will not take us anywhere
Sunday, 10 May 2026, 06:54
Last update: about 3 months ago
Mark Said
Robert Abela and Alex Borg are complicit in the farcical performance that is debasing the upcoming general election campaign. It is a mode of politics hopelessly inadequate for the challenges that we...
The party on the Centre-Right
Sunday, 10 May 2026, 06:25
Last update: about 3 months ago
Noel Grima
May began with a series of shocks and disappointments for the Nationalist Party and those who identify with it. In Malta's tribal politics you are born on one side and generally you keep to that side...
Strengthening what works
Friday, 8 May 2026, 07:54
Last update: about 3 months ago
Owen Bonnici
Two weeks have already passed since the start of the electoral campaign, and the contrast between the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party, particularly that between Prime Minister Robert Abela and...
Four years
Thursday, 7 May 2026, 08:00
Last update: about 3 months ago
Alfred Sant
At one time, elections were being held every four years. Then, I believe since the Independence Constitution came into force, elections began covering a maximum of five years in government for the...