The Malta Independent 18 August 2026, Tuesday
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TMID Editorial: Trade fairs time - Consumerism reigns

Monday, 10 July 2017, 09:41 Last update: about 10 years ago

We used to have one big trade fair, held at Naxxar. Now we are having two.  People defy the searing heat and flock to see and gawp and to buy. In the case of the Ta’ Qali one, one is...

Gozo needs all hands on deck

Sunday, 9 July 2017, 09:24 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

Things do not happen – they are made to happen. Change is the law of life and we call it progress or development. Inertia kills the whole process which is why being diligent in politics means...

TMIS Editorial: Taking the public out of public domain

Sunday, 9 July 2017, 09:15 Last update: about 10 years ago

When the Public Domain Bill was being debated in Parliament in 2016, it was described as a landmark and groundbreaking law that would empower citizens in a process that would add another layer of...

Opinion: Change we must - Chris Said

Sunday, 9 July 2017, 09:12 Last update: about 10 years ago Chris Said

There will be no honeymoon period for whoever becomes the next leader of the Nationalist Party. With two consecutive heavy defeats, a cunning government that needs to be under continuous watch and...

A new fascism?

Sunday, 9 July 2017, 09:10 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Post-war Italy has seen a modest proliferation of tiny political forces, mostly operating outside the country’s institutions, which believe that there is scope to continue Mussolini’s...

Only One childhood

Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

When I was a child, and that’s quite some time ago, the saying went that children were there to be seen but not heard...

A Saint for Malta

Monday, 26 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago Malta Independent

The Church in Malta has been very much in the news over the past two months...

Christian Beliefs

Monday, 26 February 2007, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It is of course perfectly true, as Daphne Caruana Galizia says (TMID, 8 February), that for many people, being Catholic seems to mean nothing more profound than “siding with the Pope”...

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