Unlike other newspapers, The Malta Independent will not favour any candidate for the post of Deputy Prime Minister/Deputy Leader of the Labour Party or anyone of those contesting the leadership of the...

It is incredibly frustrating to reconcile how so many exist in a space wherein they choose to assert fantasy over reality, while chastising those who dare point out the facts with “wrong...

The 20th century is a testament to how organising societies around the concept of 'equal outcome' or equity is a fundamentally bad idea. And yet, the incessant narrative of forced equity in all...

We should have reached a point where being LGBTIQ is a statement of fact, and engenders no shame or opprobrium.  Evolved minds should have reached that point by now.  Of course, the poor...

It was rich of the Prime Minister to call on EU member states to show solidarity on the migration issue at a time when Malta is being accused of shirking its responsibility and failing to take...

From Paris to Bucharest, from Madrid to Moscow, an often well-founded perception of corruption in high places is leading European citizens to shake up the political life of their country. Since...

In Parliament, we are currently discussing the equal marriage bill. This is a law which has made history in all the countries around the world where the matter was always an issue of controversy....

Helena Dalli Last year, during a seminar marking International Women’s Day, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was asked by one of the seminar’s participants – who had registered a...

Many interesting news stories appeared in the local media over the weekend, but surely one of the most entertaining, yet saddening news pieces was an online report about the latest...

The most, or perhaps the only significant element in all these endless polls about who is or who is not going to win the next election is the extraordinary and growing number of people who are still saying they won't vote or are undecided. ...