The Malta Independent 8 November 2026, Sunday
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TMID Editorial: Air Malta: Hanging by a thread

Monday, 19 September 2022, 11:51 Last update: about 5 years ago

We’ve seen it all before, we’ve heard it all before, and we’ve written about it all before: but this time it actually does appear that the final chapter for Air Malta is being...

TMIS Editorial: The country needs a strong Opposition

Sunday, 18 September 2022, 11:00 Last update: about 5 years ago

For decades, Independence Day was associated with the Nationalist Party. When, in 1964, then Prime Minister George Borg Olivier waved the documents to the cheering crowds in Floriana, a new...

The world needs another Gorbachev

Sunday, 18 September 2022, 09:44 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark Said

What made a politician with a typically Soviet background and Party career become an unprecedented driver of reform, supporting democratisation in the USSR and opposing, in most cases, the use of...

Why can’t we get our act together for quality tourism

Sunday, 18 September 2022, 09:42 Last update: about 5 years ago Julian Zarb

In my last article, I wrote about the importance of stewardship and my project to develop a management handbook and guidelines on Stewardship for civic responsibility, culture, heritage and tourism....

What’s the state of the Union?

Sunday, 18 September 2022, 09:41 Last update: about 5 years ago Josianne Cutajar

This week, the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, gave the annual state of the Union address, where she addressed the European Parliament about the challenges being faced by...

Time, Space… and Palmyra: A Critique

Sunday, 18 September 2022, 09:35 Last update: about 5 years ago

"We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life and a bad one ruins it" - Alain de Botton...

The Marian cult in all its ramifications

Sunday, 18 September 2022, 09:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

Like other female writers who were brought up in a (probably single sex) Catholic school (another writer who comes to mind is Karen Armstrong who had also been a nun) Marina Warner was brought up in a...

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