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...
Marie Benoit's Diary: Italian pianist delights at Palazzo de la Salle
Sunday, 18 September 2022, 09:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Marie Benoît
On the occasion of the twinning of Valletta and Cortona, the Italian Embassy invited the award-winning pianist Francesco Attesti to give a concert in Malta. The maestro also happens to be the deputy...
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...
Life and other distractions: A Maltese businessman’s lament
Sunday, 18 September 2022, 07:51
Last update: about 5 years ago
NB: You may need a translator for this week's column "Listen, it's not me you must shout with... u le! Jien, just I am Leli from Mqabba, try to make money for my "femily" is it. Ara,...