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Snobs and classists

Monday, 22 October 2018, 08:06 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

One tendency within the PN always carried a strong dose of snobism as well as classism. Others not. For instance it never existed as far as I know, in the discourse of political actors like the Mifsud...

A tribute to Alain Blondy

Monday, 22 October 2018, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Simon Mercieca

It was a great honour for me to contribute to a book recently published in honour of Professor Alain Blondy. I have known Professor Blondy since my university days....

Taming the residential rental market

Sunday, 21 October 2018, 10:30 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The proposals in the White Paper entitled ‘Renting as a Housing Alternative’ is a breath of fresh air in the long overdue debate on the need to regulate the rental market for residential...

Bedrock Malta

Sunday, 21 October 2018, 10:24 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

To find the real Malta, there is no better place than Mater Dei’s Emergency Department at night. There you find a Malta you probably never thought existed. There you find that Malta is...

A democratic society

Friday, 19 October 2018, 08:10 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

It more than appropriate that on the one-year anniversary of the horrific murder of blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, our thoughts are with her family and friends, who are no doubt still grieving over...

Value added

Thursday, 18 October 2018, 07:51 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

We really need to promote economic activity that does leave strong added value in the Maltese economy. As of the end of the 1980’s and during the 1990’s, the Fenech Adami administrations...

With Brexit, Malta will need new allies

Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 13:26 Last update: about 7 years ago Peter Agius

One of five jobs in the manufacturing sector are at risk with Brexit, Peter Agius said, while the financial services sector in the UK will also suffer The Nationalist Party candidate for the...

Jerome: he planned his life after death

Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 07:36 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I’m not too fond of funerals and memorials, not that I believe many people are.  But at times, ‘you got to do what you got to do’.   In fact, that is what I did last...

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