Bird's Eye View

Category: Opinion

  • “Day of Silence”

    “Day of Silence”

    Despite being the “day of reflection”, political advertisement is still going as if the campaign hasn’t ended.

  • PN vs PL: Where does the duopoly stand?

    PN vs PL: Where does the duopoly stand?

    With today being the final day of the election campaign, what’s happened, and where do PL and PN stand?

  • War In Europe: Retracing the Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back

    War In Europe: Retracing the Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back

    The Russia-Ukraine conflict has been consuming our newsfeed for the past few weeks, and in the chaos of it all, it’s easy to forget what exactly kindled this conflict. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has thrown the two countries into a large-scale, deadly conflict, with a humanitarian catastrophe looming. But, aside from the broader…

  • Your Vote: A Right or a Duty?

    Many of us currently studying within the University of Malta have never voted in a General Election, and now that we find ourselves during election week, we realise that we were never prepared for this choice. Moreover, many of us have received little education about active citizenship as part of a four-module study-unit at 6th…

  • Election Season: How do Businesses react?

    As the 2022 General Election looms closer it is important to understand the uncertainty that comes along with it, in all facets of life. In Malta, the month leading up to the General Election is very popular, or rather notorious, as this period is often tainted with populous proposals and partisan disputes that may cause…

  • Young Candidates Q&A

    Young Candidates Q&A

    Tune in below to catch a Q&A Session with Mina Tolu, Alex Mangion – Kandidat għall-Elezzjoni Ġenerali, and Thomas ”Kass” Mallia, all of whom are youth candidates contesting the General Election on the 26th of March Part 1: Part 2:

  • KSU/MUDU Debate – Volt Malta

    KSU/MUDU Debate – Volt Malta

    We asked Volt Malta what their answers would have looked like had they been invited to the KSU/MUDU Debate last week.

  • The University Election Leaders Debate: A retrospect

    The University Election Leaders Debate: A retrospect

    What was the leaders’ debate in a while, was the first of four major debates for the 2022 election campaign which took place at the University of Malta, with all of them including Prime Minister and PL leader, Robert Abela, and Leader of the Opposition and PN leader, Bernard Grech. However, the debate which took…

  • Women’s Day

    So much went into play to allow for this annual international celebration to be cemented into our calendars. More than a hundred years of protests, campaigns, and movements, fighting gender disparity, raising awareness on the many oppressions faced by women, and bringing forward individuals who became immortalised by their actions, instilled the passion and fight…

  • The Third Parties. Who are they?

    The Third Parties. Who are they?

    Although the voting system in Malta is somewhat favourable for the creation of a multi-party-political scene in Malta, for several decades, even before our independence, two parties have held an absolute majority within Parliament, the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party. The Democratic Alternative Party (now AD+PD) was also present since its split from the…