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Scraping the bottom of the barrel

Tuesday, 3 March 2015, 08:31 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

A sweeping statement is certainly not fit here, but the disenchantment amongst many is growing fast. Our political class’ credentials are treading on very thin ice. The level of accountability...

Muscat is repeating Gonzi

Monday, 2 March 2015, 09:57 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

Some weeks are worse than others for this government. While, on the one hand, on the macro level the country is doing fine, and the assessments being made by the European Commission as well as...

Shaken

Monday, 2 March 2015, 07:52 Last update: about 10 years ago Marlene Farrugia

"If you don't behave, you'll also end up in the slammer."         Boris Nemtsov   I never got the squirts from Cafe Premier while it was...

Stop talking about hunters and start talking about birds

Sunday, 1 March 2015, 10:51 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I watched TVM news yesterday evening, a rare thing for me. The hunters had some kind of press event on. They were fronted by a cleverly-chosen Kathleen Grima, a young lawyer from Manuel Mallia’s...

Sucked into the vortex

Sunday, 1 March 2015, 10:50 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

The contagion is spreading and getting nearer and nearer. Slowly and inexorably, we are being sucked into the Libyan vortex. We have misplaced fears, amplified by the terrible ISIS propaganda videos...

Taking care of tax evaders

Sunday, 1 March 2015, 10:46 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Joseph Muscat and the Labour Party pride themselves on emphasising that this government has removed the statutory limitation (prescription) relative to corruption when holders of political office are...

Media feuds

Sunday, 1 March 2015, 10:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

I guess it was inevitable. Given Malta’s restricted market and the political magnetic field that we live in, media feuds are bound to occur every now and then. That the sound of flak and...

How to win at politics

Saturday, 28 February 2015, 17:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

Twenty five years of Nationalist administration have become as nothing.  Safe to say, we're back where we were in the 1970s and 1980s, re-living the same grievances and injustices.  Like a...

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