The Internet and the World Wide Web remain the biggest decentralised communication system humanity has ever seen. This was a key part of the design: the inventors of the Web envisioned all people...

The Nationalist Party resembles a patient bedridden for over a decade. The decline began after 2013, when the defeat of Lawrence Gonzi left the party in shock and without direction. Since then, every...

That reading and buying books have declined as activities is a well-documented fact, not just in Malta. Everywhere, booksellers have shut up shop. By way of consolation, so we get told, there has been...

Last week ('Government's Legalised Rape of Malta's Environment', The Malta Independent on Sunday, 3/8/2025), I stated that Bills number 143 and 144 of July 2025 were in breach of the rule of law: 'The...

Joseph Muscat is paid tens of thousands of euro by Michael Stivala the Malta Developers Association President to be his consultant. He's been paid tens of thousands more by Fortina's Zammit Tabona. So...

We are unfortunately too often witnessing economic considerations run counter to good environmental practice. It is time to identify government priorities that could help accelerate the evolution to a...

We've all come across one or two. A video of the Pope dancing in a nightclub, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky surrendering, or former US President Barack Obama being arrested in the oval...

The debate on the required changes to land use planning regulation in Malta has reached a very dangerous stage. Bill 143 and Bill 144 have a very clear objective: to ensure that as many safeguards as...

Last Monday I met an Eritrean mother of three who, despite living in appalling conditions, is eternally grateful to Malta for giving her children the chance to grow up safely. A couple of years ago,...

Let's settle this score once and for all I say.  Give us back our property and our rights as landowners and stop this gross injustice now.  It is like there are two or three Maltas. One...