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Deviation on the rise

Sunday, 28 June 2015, 13:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alex Mangion

Over the past months, I could not help but notice that politics has become all about deviation and opportunity rather than politics for the common good. This is indeed a pity and is starting to have...

Education

Saturday, 27 June 2015, 14:27 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

Further education in Malta is relatively new in broad society whilst we still have remnants of the past who cling tenaciously to their political leader and the party machine for their source of...

Labour’s Pop Idol tries dirty dancing

Friday, 26 June 2015, 15:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

When the first scandals of this Labour government began to emerge, like the Café Premier scandal, Joseph Muscat blamed the missteps on inexperience. Poor guy, he was still in the first episodes...

A Police “Mafia” or a Mafia Police?

Friday, 26 June 2015, 10:41 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

A few years ago, during the previous administration, a police inspector demanded the Magistrates’ Courts to imprison me for two years for sending an email reporting an irregular behaviour of a...

Fossil-hunting in the Council of Europe

Thursday, 25 June 2015, 15:09 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Wherever that Mintoffian fossil goes, he embarrasses Malta. I don’t mean Reno Calleja and his fixation with Communist China, which he actually preferred in its Chairman Mao days, but Joe Debono...

IDEOLOGY

Thursday, 25 June 2015, 11:04 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

We’ve long been told that ideology died when the Berlin wall fell and globalisation spread. I never believed this fairy story but have always been impressed by the fact that so many...

Those sitting on the flashy green chairs on rails

Wednesday, 24 June 2015, 14:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

One distinctive feature that is embedded in this nation’s collective memory is our obsession with politicians for reasons that have been discussed countless times notably so in Professor Oliver...

Dr Ian Borg’s apology is a step in the right direction

Tuesday, 23 June 2015, 13:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

This government’s pledge to fight bureaucracy tooth and nail is bearing fruit, alas to the selected few.   Pampering the selected few is a gross social injustice which cannot be erased...

University and the Zonqor Controversy

Monday, 22 June 2015, 15:50 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

Last week, Arnold Cassola stated that career ambitions may have been the reason why academics did not sign the Zonqor petition. This is partially true. Professor Cassola rightly used the conditional...

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