Europe is worried about Joseph Muscat
This week’s European Parliament delegation’s urgent fact-finding mission to
The Shift Team
December 4, 2019 19:48
Protest moves to police headquarters
Protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph
The Shift Team
December 3, 2019 20:45
The failed state of the man who would be il-Kink
Malta’s democracy looks like someone in the last stages
Ryan Murdock
December 3, 2019 14:06
Parliament under siege as protestors turn the tables on MPs
Citizens gathered in front of parliament again on Monday
The Shift Team
December 2, 2019 20:31
Malta’s crisis of democracy
Castille Square was a sea of flags as thousands
The Shift Team
November 29, 2019 20:15
Yorgen Fenech presidential pardon denied after six-hour Cabinet meeting
Joseph Muscat’s Cabinet was summoned to Castille for an
The Shift Team
November 29, 2019 04:29
The battle for the soul of the country
Joseph Muscat clings to power under increasing pressure from
The Shift Team
November 28, 2019 19:37
Joseph Muscat’s fight for survival
There’s a hole in the space where Joseph Muscat’s
Ryan Murdock
November 28, 2019 07:52
‘Governments should be afraid of their people’
As concerned citizens gathered in Valletta for the seventh
The Shift Team
November 27, 2019 19:41
Chaos in parliament as protest rages in Valletta
Protestors filled Valletta for the sixth time in less
The Shift Team
November 26, 2019 19:28
‘Impunity in any society erodes the rule of law’ – GRECO Executive Secretary
Malta needs an overall strategy and coherent risk-based approach
Alice Taylor
November 23, 2019 10:32
Who’s watching the watcher?
What if Yorgen Fenech decided to ask for a
Ryan Murdock
November 22, 2019 18:59
Owen Bonnici’s shattered serenity
Owen Bonnici had a bad night. Why would he
Ryan Murdock
November 21, 2019 14:54
Protestors flood Valletta demanding resignations and an end to impunity
Hundreds of people filled Castille Square in front of
The Shift Team
November 20, 2019 18:46
Schembri finally got his day in court, and he chose to run away
Well, that didn’t go very well, did it? In
Ryan Murdock
November 12, 2019 17:54
Dodging the truth on pushback
“I was mistaken when it comes to the pushback,”
Ryan Murdock
November 11, 2019 18:19
Two years of The Shift: Malta’s only newsroom funded by readers
The Shift is two years old. We want to
The Shift Team
November 9, 2019 08:35
UN Chief rejects proposal by 70 organisations for journalists’ safety
The United Nations Secretary General has “no plans” to
November 5, 2019 12:03
‘This is not on’, said the Dodger to the fly
Dodging journalists. Avoiding interviews. Running away from tough questions.
Ryan Murdock
November 4, 2019 07:54
You will not get away with murder
Guest commentary by Annie Game, Executive Director of IFEX,
The Shift Team
November 2, 2019 08:37
Interactive map showcases journalists killed worldwide for their stories
More than 1000 journalists were killed over the past
November 1, 2019 14:32
Another paper tiger
This government has a strong record of creating paper
Ryan Murdock
October 31, 2019 07:38
Global Impunity Index reports 318 journalists killed
Some 318 journalists were murdered in retaliation for their
October 30, 2019 12:31
‘They did it, too!’
“It’s okay to give Kurt Farrugia Malta Enterprise because
Ryan Murdock
October 28, 2019 18:16
Judicial schizophrenia
Justice Joanne Vella Cuschieri has ruled that Malta Enterprise’s right
Ryan Murdock
October 19, 2019 10:46
Cracks appear in the government’s piggy bank
Who thought extending ‘‘interest-free’ property loans to people who
Ryan Murdock
October 18, 2019 09:55
‘There can be no mercy for those who killed Daphne’ – Harlem Désir
There can be no mercy for those responsible for
Caroline Muscat
October 14, 2019 11:53
‘McMafia’ author questions contract killing of Maltese journalist
The most extraordinary thing about Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder
Nicola Driscoll-Davies
September 23, 2019 09:00
Diverting public attention from the story that won’t die
In the make-belief land of Malta, perception matters more
Ryan Murdock
September 20, 2019 08:22
‘When a journalist dies, a whole chunk of democracy dies’ – Sandro Ruotolo
Renowned Italian journalist Sandro Ruotolo has condemned the Maltese
The Shift Team
September 16, 2019 13:48

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