Malta’s population reaches record high placing strain on localities
Malta is experiencing unsustainable rates of population growth in
The Shift Team
September 25, 2023 08:08
Imported cheap labour dominating job market as 77% earn under €20,000 a year
As Malta continues to see unprecedented and unrestrained population
The Shift Team
February 10, 2023 14:50
The price of Labour’s myths
The Bank of England has just announced that Britain
Kevin Cassar
November 7, 2022 10:27
First impressions: the governing party’s raft of electoral promises
In another instalment of The Shift’s 2022 elections series,
Julian Delia
March 12, 2022 18:27
No end to Konrad Mizzi’s filibustering on Electrogas deal at public accounts committee
Yet another hearing of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC),
Julian Delia
January 19, 2022 18:14
Labour Party supporter charged with threatening, harassing prominent activists, writers, politicians
Labour Party supporter Joseph Mary Borg was remanded in
Julian Delia
November 24, 2021 17:10
Standard deviation
There was a time I would speak of a
Jacques René Zammit
November 16, 2020 08:06
Government buys COVID-19 ventilators from ‘Tiger King’ and an arms dealer
The bulk of expenses on ventilators – some €3
The Shift Team
October 1, 2020 11:20
Numbing the minds of backbenchers
Just imagine if the Environment and Resources Authority Head
Petra Caruana Dingli
July 10, 2019 07:23
It’s confidential: Ministers deny having access to Egrant inquiry
Ministers Chris Cardona, Konrad Mizzi and Edward Scicluna have
The Shift Team
June 17, 2019 18:03
Government refuses to publish secret deal to transfer prime public land
The government should immediately publish the secret Memorandum of
The Shift Team
February 6, 2019 12:39
2018: The year of the angry citizen 
The year which has now come to an end
December 31, 2018 16:06
Democracy is dead, long live democracy
Word has it that when the Venice Commission report
December 18, 2018 17:33
New beginnings, same old outcomes
PN leader Adrian Delia’s promised ‘New Way’ has seen
November 8, 2018 17:13
The big compromise
US President Donald Trump has made it very clear
October 18, 2018 17:01
The political centre is moving to the right 
On Sunday, Adrian Delia regaled us one of his
October 13, 2018 17:13
A country of two truths
One of the most fascinating facets of Maltese society
October 4, 2018 17:19
Vote Joseph and Adrian, get Silvio Debono 
Planning Authority board members are being blamed for ignoring
September 24, 2018 19:23
Planning Authority approves db Group mega-project
The Planning Authority (PA) has approved the controversial db
September 20, 2018 16:13
Labour MEP hopeful wants PN traitors “trashed” in next year’s election
Labour MEP hopeful Josef Caruana hopes that Nationalist MEPs
The Shift Team
September 17, 2018 11:13
The plight of ‘homeless voters’
The Maltese electorate can be more or less divided
August 23, 2018 17:59
Underdog-eats-dog
Labour is the eternal underdog, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat
August 22, 2018 12:17
Making up our mind
“History is written by the victors” is an old
August 17, 2018 17:28
A one-party state in the making 
March 2008. In what turned out to be a
August 11, 2018 17:18
The triumph of reverse snobbery 
Not so long ago, Labour supporters were the victims
August 9, 2018 16:32
Why do the Maltese vote for corrupt politicians?
The Lovin Malta poll published this week provides striking
August 4, 2018 16:36
Muscat and Salvini cut from the same cloth 
New Spanish Socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez has done
June 11, 2018 18:47
Launching The Shift News Disinformation Watch
A decade before her assassination, Daphne Caruana Galizia wrote
The Shift Team
May 27, 2018 11:54
Investigating Joseph Muscat’s online hate machine
Joseph Muscat repeatedly claims to stand for a positive
The Shift Team
May 14, 2018 18:30
Alien-nation 
For someone who grew up in the 80s, the
Cedric Farrugia
April 24, 2018 06:00

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