Happy Easter, Crazy Island
Sunday, 27 March 2016, 11:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Prime Minister’s aide, Glenn Bedingfield aka Fat Gland, has chosen to mark Eastertide by launching an assault on the Archbishop. I imagine he believes this is a jolly good way of rallying...
A Fronte Praecipitium, A Tergo Lupi
Saturday, 26 March 2016, 09:10
Last update: about 10 years ago
Rachel Borg
Last October we watched the saga of Noel Sciberras in Libya, abducted by a gang in Tajoura and held prisoner for over a month until he was freed and brought back home to Malta. There have...
Archbishop Joseph Mercieca: Personal Recollections
Friday, 25 March 2016, 10:08
Last update: about 10 years ago
Simon Mercieca
Catholic believers would not consider it a coincidence that their Bishop Emeritus went to meet the risen Lord during Holy Week. His life was an up-hill struggle. Before referring to a few unknown...
Notes from a sink-pit of corruption
Thursday, 24 March 2016, 10:18
Last update: about 10 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Prime Minister declared three days of national mourning for the death of a former Archbishop of Malta, and promptly jetted off for his Easter holidays, saying that he would miss the formal funeral...
Friends of friends
Thursday, 24 March 2016, 06:52
Last update: about 10 years ago
Alfred Sant
Jeremy Boissevain was the first to explain how to a substantial extent, affairs are conducted in Malta according to a friends-of-friends system, with "friends" working together to help each other...
Konrad’s hysterics
Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 09:37
Last update: about 10 years ago
Stephen Calleja
They might not be burning down printing presses, or preventing newspapers from choosing the name they would like for their publication. But the attacks on the independent media under this government...
Throwing one’s hat in the ring
Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 08:03
Last update: about 10 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
I believe that what we are experiencing in our political scenario at this point in time is close to unprecedented. After the virtual walkover of the Nationalist Party in the last general...
Conspiracy theories
Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 12:59
Last update: about 10 years ago
Mario de Marco
I refer to Simon Mercieca’s opinion piece entitled Mario de Marco and Adrian Hillman which appeared in the Malta Independent’s edition of 21 March 2016. Mr Mercieca is free to comment...
Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency
Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 09:09
Last update: about 10 years ago
Gejtu Vella
Big building contractors and businessmen were getting too close to the Labour Party, former PL deputy leader Dr Anġlu Farrugia revealed in an interview after he was unceremoniously forced to...