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How come?

Wednesday, 24 June 2020, 08:36 Last update: about 5 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

As a mix of melodrama, comedy, farce and tragedy - call it what you may - unravels in our Courts of Justice, these questions come to mind: The Windfarm How come a state corporation with the...

Simon needs to come clean

Tuesday, 28 October 2014, 10:02 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

On the surface, Simon Busuttil's words on George Pullicino during last Sunday's Nationalist Party activity seemed to be in defence of the former Resources Minister, under fire as he is from the Labour...

Up to no good

Friday, 24 October 2014, 08:13 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Last Monday, in Parliament, I was sitting right opposite Konrad Mizzi and Joseph Muscat as they tried to deflect attention from their failure. I wasn't just listening to what was being said. I...

The Attorney General should let Leanne Camilleri be

Thursday, 23 October 2014, 07:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Hasn't Leanne Camilleri, the 20-year-old whose false sexual abuse allegations landed her father in prison for more than a year, had enough of a terrible life already? When she was found guilty of...

The Church: A timed or timely coup d’ etat?

Monday, 20 October 2014, 08:29 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

As I said in my previous blog, 'A Church in melt-down, a Renault 4 and a pair of binoculars',  I consider myself a judicious practicing Catholic.  I must say that an element of...

Is Alice in Wonderland?

Monday, 20 October 2014, 07:52 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Cheshire Cat:    "By-the-bye, what became of the baby?" Alice:         "It turned into a pig." Cheshire Cat:    "I...

The dog ate my roadmap

Sunday, 19 October 2014, 11:06 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The recurring theme of the Labour Party general election campaign - other than the theme of how corrupt and incompetent the people were who took Malta into the European Union and the eurozone when...

The end of a dream

Sunday, 19 October 2014, 11:04 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

Fifty-two years ago, on a hot day on 11th October, still a young MUSEUM teenager, my face was glued to the windowpane of Farrugia 'tar-radjijiet' showroom in High Street Hamrun for a full four hours,...

History must not repeat itself

Sunday, 19 October 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Mifsud

The fear of history repeating itself forced me to re-read the story of Germany between 1928 and 1933. By 1928, Germany was recovering well from the shattering experience of the First World War and the...

How the police proceed

Saturday, 18 October 2014, 15:33 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

A former senior police officer, ex-Assistant Commissioner Michael Cassar, was in the news recently in connection with the case instituted by the Prime Minister against the Opposition Leader following...

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