The Malta Independent 16 July 2026, Thursday
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False information

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 8 months ago Alfred Sant

There is a growing (and I think correct) belief that more and more of decisions being taken are based on false information. Indeed, beyond that, programmed efforts are being sustained to spread false...

Malta’s roads don’t lie – the system collapsed

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 07:56 Last update: about 8 months ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Malta struggles with traffic, but the genuine crisis hides in the details that shape every journey. Anyone who drives across Malta and Gozo meets the same catalogue of failure: faded lines, unlit...

Justice in fits and starts

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 07:54 Last update: about 8 months ago Mark Said

The quality of justice is a constant and long‑standing concern of our country, as shown in particular by several regular recommendations forthcoming from stakeholders on ways of facilitating...

Promoting births

Monday, 1 December 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 9 months ago Alfred Sant

The claim has been made frequently, with reason. The people of Malta and Gozo are "producing" less children than what is required to replenish the population. Instead the prospects are that there will...

Labour’s strategy - personal attacks

Sunday, 30 November 2025, 08:12 Last update: about 9 months ago Kevin Cassar

Robert Abela hired Neville Gafa, a man notorious for his toxic blog, a perennial spring of offence, insults and threats. Gafa even targeted ministers in Abela's own cabinet. Previously Gafa gained...

Gozo: A courtroom in the schoolyard

Sunday, 30 November 2025, 08:06 Last update: about 9 months ago Emmanuel J. Galea

The Downtown Hotel in Victoria awaits its next chapter. The government now wants to convert this hotel - owned by construction magnate Joseph Portelli, a man whose business circles often overlap with...

Is housing for all possible?

Sunday, 30 November 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 9 months ago Frans Camilleri

Skyrocketing house prices and rents in Europe risk making housing unaffordable in many countries.  There is alarm about the broader implications of the housing crisis, such that Eurofound has...

Video killed the radio star

Sunday, 30 November 2025, 07:58 Last update: about 9 months ago Valerie Visanich

It's hardly the first-time technology has been cast as the villain. Just rewind to the 1980s and ask The Terminator. Back in 1984, we were already imagining a robot hitman sent from 2029...

The new PN leadership: A new dawn for Maltese politics?

Sunday, 30 November 2025, 07:57 Last update: about 9 months ago Mark Said

The meeting between Prime Minister Robert Abela and newly elected PN leader Alex Borg at Labour headquarters appeared quite odd and surprising at a time of unparalleled political polarisation in...

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