The Malta Independent 17 August 2026, Monday
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Who will stand up in the eye of this storm?

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 08:35 Last update: about 10 years ago Ivan Grech Mintoff

Malta is in a perfect and devastating political storm with no precedent. Our knowledgeable forefathers would have steered us well away from this danger, but the present leaderships of the two main...

Working close to the people

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 08:15 Last update: about 10 years ago

It is the combination of serious planning and the ability to keep going when faced with challenges that leads to the successful completion of everything that needs to be done. Feasible...

DAB, a bad ad, BA

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 07:51 Last update: about 10 years ago

Controls are so tight in the advertising industry on the kind of pitch one is permitted to make about one's product, that such qualifications as "the best in the market" or "better than any other of...

A moral dichotemy

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 07:49 Last update: about 10 years ago

Clearly there can be no argument with Prime Minister Muscat's recent pronouncements on the ugly face of racism. Fresh from a massive electoral victory, the Prime Minister is riding the crest of a...

Malta, Paul and Joseph – Independent

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 07:47 Last update: about 10 years ago

On 13 June, 2008 Muscat said that he did not believe in marriage between people of the same sex. On 17 June, 2011 he also had said that "love me or hate me, the term marriage is only for a union...

Lib v Con: The Scales of Freedom

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 07:44 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

It seems like a story set in Gabriel García Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, with the liberals and the conservatives fighting a civil war. Only that in that novel, General...

All options are on the table

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 07:43 Last update: about 10 years ago

The stern warning delivered by US President Donald Trump to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un: "All options are on the table. Kim Jong-un and his regime have again signalled their contempt for their...

Maltese style

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 07:36 Last update: about 10 years ago

The decorative style favoured by the Maltese for their "Catholic" festas include garish red and gold pavaljuni (the more ornate swirls on them the better), plus kitsch-baroque pedestals, on...

The advantages of EU funds

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 07:33 Last update: about 10 years ago

Most people do not directly access EU funds but I believe many of them benefit from them. Before Malta joined the EU, new roads had been built, so I will not go into this subject. However, several...

Overcoming the heat wave

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 07:29 Last update: about 10 years ago

All of us have suffered from the recent heat wave nicknamed "Lucifer". As one of the local news websites reported, such a heat wave has started forest fires, set off weather warnings alerts...

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