The Malta Independent 8 May 2025, Thursday
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TMID Editorial: Is it time for a new fleet of ferries?

Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 10:41 Last update: about 2 months ago

The Nationalist Party last week said that a new fleet of Gozo ferries is needed, highlighting the age of the current vessels, with three having been in operation for 25 years, and also proposed a...

TMID Editorial: Football and nationality

Monday, 24 March 2025, 11:04 Last update: about 2 months ago

The next round of international matches began last week, as Malta's FIFA World Cup qualification group got underway with a home match against Finland. The buildup to this match and to the next...

The buck stops with you

Sunday, 23 March 2025, 10:53 Last update: about 3 months ago

For years, we've lived in a state where neither individual politicians nor the government as a whole will ever admit political responsibility for anything. These are the same people who sat in...

The beauty of the superfluous and a life well lived

Sunday, 23 March 2025, 10:50 Last update: about 3 months ago

The passing away of Alfred Bugeja, known as il-Porporina, ignited a mixed bag of emotions, as the news hit the airwaves this week. His was decidedly a notorious life, as his nickname, for some time,...

TMIS Editorial: Still no flowers grow in Parliament

Sunday, 23 March 2025, 09:30 Last update: about 3 months ago

When the late Oliver Friggieri published his masterpiece "Fil-Parlament ma jikbrux fjuri" (No flowers grow in Parliament), it was 1986. The country was in turmoil, on the verge of a civil war....

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