The Malta Independent 30 July 2026, Thursday
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The Speaker’s sins

Sunday, 5 December 2021, 10:33 Last update: about 6 years ago Kevin Cassar

“I have no names to give”. This was Speaker Anglu Farrugia committing perjury at the Daphne Caruana Galizia inquiry. In an interview he gave to Pierre Portelli in 2017 Anglu Farrugia...

The PN’s woes

Sunday, 5 December 2021, 10:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

This topic is complex. There are many elements to it. For instance, bubbles and echo-chambers; a remarkable strain of historical understanding; an equally remarkable type of familiarity with current...

The regeneration of Marsa

Sunday, 5 December 2021, 09:31 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The public consultation which commenced earlier this week relative to the regeneration of the inner part of the Grand Harbour along the coastal area of Marsa is most welcome. Marsa has been neglected...

On running the Lbic gauntlet

Sunday, 5 December 2021, 08:32 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Experienced mariners tell you that the wind they fear most in Malta is the Lbic (South West) rather than the Grigal (North East).  In the context of the few kilometres that separate Malta from...

Less lawyer, more fighter

Saturday, 4 December 2021, 07:21 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

Consistency and credibility are in short supply in the Partit Nazzjonalista.  There is one voice, though, that makes itself heard above the daily grind, that of Ivan Bartolo, Spokesperson for...

Full authority

Friday, 3 December 2021, 08:26 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

This week was a particularly interesting one in the House of Representatives as we have approved, after a five-hour long uninterrupted discussion and analysis, the proposed cannabis reform bill at...

Rules of political engagement

Thursday, 2 December 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

How political adversaries consider each other and negotiate with each other is a subject of great interest. At the heart of major political choices that by themselves create enormous tensions between...

Not a land flowing with milk and honey

Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 09:52 Last update: about 6 years ago Evarist Bartolo

On the 16th November, 2021, I took part in the Ministerial Conference in Brussels on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East organised by the...

Established rights

Monday, 29 November 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

It should be unacceptable that when citizens’ rights in a democracy have been established -- meaning that they have been given full legal recognition -- they then get revoked by political...

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