The Malta Independent 16 July 2026, Thursday
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Business and fraud

Monday, 28 September 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

The scandal regarding the fraud operated by Volkswagen in their emissions testing on new cars is the latest in a sequence of similar episodes that have developed on a global scale. Multinational...

Ignorance and racism span the social spectrum

Sunday, 27 September 2015, 11:02 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

When I wrote this column yesterday evening, beneath my Thursday column there were 450 comments and the discussion was still ongoing. The subject was not actually racism, but how – when there is...

Simon’s follies

Sunday, 27 September 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

These past few days, during and after the PN Independence Day celebrations, I have been struck by what I can only call the follies of party leader Simon Busuttil. The first folly, so to speak,...

Malta’s finch-trapping at the European Court of Justice

Sunday, 27 September 2015, 10:48 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

On 1 May 2013, Roderick Galdes, Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Hunting and Trapping, announced that a technical loophole had been found “that would allow the government to present...

The patriots

Sunday, 27 September 2015, 10:45 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

I see that the self-declared Maltese patriots have expressed disappointment at the low turn-out for their Valletta activity a weekend ago, during which some of them (how many more than...

Disempowering tactics

Saturday, 26 September 2015, 09:02 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

The only source of knowledge is experience – Albert Einstein. How predictable of Labour this routine of kicking out the good guys has become.  They are like a group of teenage girls...

Taking the lead

Friday, 25 September 2015, 11:41 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

This month marks the half-way mark of this legislature. It is mid-road not just for Muscat’s government but also for Simon Busuttil’s Opposition. The polls have always shown Labour ahead...

Malta isn’t safe with Maltese racists about

Thursday, 24 September 2015, 13:32 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Nine years ago, Maltese racists set fire to a house – a house, and not merely a front door – in which a family was sleeping. It was 3am, and they stacked lorry tyres packed with bottles of...

Children of a Lesser God

Thursday, 24 September 2015, 11:16 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

My post about the vilification of God brought about a myriad of reactions. Some were positive; others were totally negative and, in some instances, resorted to attacking me on a personal level. Many...

Holiness and corruption

Thursday, 24 September 2015, 08:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

The government will be doing well if it persists in holding Skanska and others responsible for the shameful work they carried out at Mater Dei hospital. From beginning to end, the construction of that...

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