Respecting the institutions is key for an effective democracy
Wednesday, 8 November 2017, 08:03
Last update: about 10 years ago
Jose Herrera
Indisputably Malta’s legal framework is based on the rule of Law. We fully embrace the notion of the separation of powers as enunciated by Political Philosopher Baron de Montesquieu in 1748....
Forty years of opera production
Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 14:08
Last update: about 10 years ago
Forty years is a long time in the history of opera in Malta and it is no mean achievement for the Leone Philharmonic Society to have presented annual opera productions all this time in its...
Boyce Avenue is about to hit Malta
Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 14:06
Last update: about 10 years ago
There aren't many internationally-renowned bands that can claim to be at the top of any category but, Boyce Avenue - a band that got together in 2004 and started uploading covers to YouTube three...
Creating The Planets
Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 14:00
Last update: about 10 years ago
Gustav Holst's the Planets is easily one of the most notable and influential works of music written in the 20th century. Its seven movements - each named after a planet in the solar system -...
Abstracting the Mediterranean: Fluidity and the politics of space
Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 13:58
Last update: about 10 years ago
Nikki Petroni
Abstraction as a visual language has the capacity to elicit that which cannot be articulated. It distances itself from figuration precisely because the latter is intelligible; it portrays the familiar...
Understanding conflict through dance
Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 13:55
Last update: about 10 years ago
There are times when destiny seems to play tricks on us; when coincidences are just too perfectly timed to be just coincidences. That could be said about Music in Motion, the latest serving by Modern...
TMID: Daphne’s funeral - Telling the leaders to stay away
Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 10:09
Last update: about 10 years ago
Many have been struck by what happened at last Friday’s funeral for murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. As we all know, the journalist’s family pointedly asked President...
Demicoli v. Malta – Part Two
Monday, 6 November 2017, 10:02
Last update: about 10 years ago
Kevin Aquilina
The case of Demicoli v. Malta was the first case decided by the European Court of Human Rights in which Malta was the respondent state. Malta lost that case miserably. In essence, the whole argument...
Complacency is not an option
Sunday, 5 November 2017, 13:46
Last update: about 10 years ago
Peter Fenech
A part of one of the most negative chapters in our country’s post-Independence history has now been closed with the laying to rest of Daphne Caruana Galizia last Friday following her barbaric...