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  • Malta Inġusta – A Lazy Bedtime Story

    Malta Inġusta – A Lazy Bedtime Story

    A tagline budget of rewrite, reuse and recycle leaves much to be desired for a country in desperate need of a plan.

  • Budget 2024: Live blog

    Budget 2024: Live blog

  • Moħħom fil-Qamar

    Moħħom fil-Qamar

    Forsi minħabba l-Gwerra?

  • Tmurx magħhom għax tiċċappas

    Tmurx magħhom għax tiċċappas

    When reading the title of this article, you probably first thought about a parent giving some wise advice to their child about how to go about in life, what company to keep and what not to. In my case, what I was thinking about when coming up with this was the now very commonly found…

  • Low Turnout: Apathy or Protest?

    Low Turnout: Apathy or Protest?

    The post-independence political scene in Malta has always shown that an extremely high percentage of the population is interested in their leadership and is willing to go out and vote. This is evident by the continued high voter turnout that the country has experienced, with only the first independent election in 1966 having a voter…

  • 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?

  • 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…

  • Beware of Abela bearing gifts

    Beware of Abela bearing gifts

    “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”. An English phrase referencing the ancient story of the Sack of Troy, when during the Trojan War, the Greeks faked a truce by giving the city of Troy a massive wooden horse, which, after the Trojans got black out drunk celebrating, opened up to reveal Greek soldiers hiding inside, opening…

  • Generation Labour

    Generation Labour

    Partit Laburista, a party which is infamous for its mob powered rule and state-sanctioned ‘thuggery’ during the ‘70s-‘80s. After 25 years in opposition, albeit those 2 years being a failed government in the late ‘90s, it reinvents itself as a progressive force of change. Only to be marked by the obscenities of perverse corruption and…