Changing the way politics is done
Sunday, 8 September 2024, 07:35
Last update: about 3 years ago
Michael Asciak
For the government to overrule a local authority and force its opinion down their throat forcefully, is not a good way to do politics nor in the interest of the common good, which should be the final...
TMID Editorial: Emissions
Saturday, 7 September 2024, 07:53
Last update: about 3 years ago
According to statistics published by Eurostat, Malta had the largest year-on-year greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increase, when comparing the first quarter of 2023 to the first quarter of 2024, when...
TMID Editorial: Promises and credibility
Friday, 6 September 2024, 11:41
Last update: about 3 years ago
The Labour Party had pledged to convert St Anne Street in Floriana into a garden, with traffic routed underground in a purpose-built tunnel, and do the exact same thing in central San Gwann in its...
TMID Editorial: A saturated Parliament
Wednesday, 4 September 2024, 09:41
Last update: about 3 years ago
In an interview with The Malta Independent last week, Speaker Anglu Farrugia spoke about a range of different topics - one of which being the number of MPs that Malta currently has. Malta...
TMID Editorial: The Remote Reporting Unit is not enough
Monday, 26 August 2024, 10:01
Last update: about 3 years ago
The Police Force recently launched a Remote Reporting Unit (RRU). The idea behind it is that one can communicate directly from the comfort of their own home with a police officer by filling out a...
TMID Editorial: Football is back
Monday, 19 August 2024, 09:46
Last update: about 3 years ago
Football returned to our television screens last weekend. Europe's biggest and best clubs were back in action as millions across the world - no doubt joined by many thousands in Malta - returned to...
TMID Editorial: She’s back without an apology
Thursday, 15 August 2024, 12:07
Last update: about 3 years ago
It was yet another moment of weakness shown by Prime Minister Robert Abela. Last Friday, as the Labour Party was preparing itself for a heated extraordinary general conference in which it was...
TMID Editorial: An important juncture for Abela’s leadership
Monday, 5 August 2024, 12:01
Last update: about 3 years ago
The results of the MEP elections, where the PN narrowed the gap between it and the PL to just 8,454 votes was a shock to everyone. The political debate suddenly was re-framed in a new context:...
Dangerous journalism
Sunday, 28 September 2014, 10:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
In her article entitled "Led by Chris Fearne, the breast fascists up the ante" (TMIS, 31 August), Daphne Caruana Galizia saw fit to aim her poison pen at Malta's medical...
Maltese photographer at the National Portrait Gallery
Sunday, 28 September 2014, 09:40
Last update: about 13 years ago
Maltese photographer Joe Smith will be the first Maltese artist to have his work exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London after an image he submitted for the prestigious Taylor Wessing...