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A PN in chaos

Friday, 20 June 2025, 09:38 Last update: about 2 years ago Owen Bonnici

As I write, the Nationalist Party is in deep trouble. Bernard Grech resigned abruptly, leaving his party to pick up the pieces. Roberta Metsola, who many portrayed her as the new PN 'messiah' ended up...

Populism

Thursday, 19 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

For political analysts it's become normal procedure to fire away the argument that this or that politician, or this or that political strategy, amounts to "populism". Initially this was considered the...

Bernard Grech's ebbing popularity

Thursday, 19 June 2025, 07:56 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

One of the measures of performance for a politician is how well he does in the polls, and even more so for the party leader who is expected to be the lead in everything in the election campaign. Bleak...

Pity

Monday, 16 June 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 2 years ago Alfred Sant

As far as I can see, the report has been given scant attention but it deserves to be read closely. Written in an objective and factual manner, it evaluates intelligently the island's economic success...

Voting against the people

Sunday, 15 June 2025, 08:21 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Cassar

Robert Abela flew into a rage.  The Opposition decided to vote against Abela's latest constitutional amendments.  Stomping his feet, Abela accused Bernard Grech of "stomping his feet". ...

The 20th and 21st genocide centuries

Sunday, 15 June 2025, 08:19 Last update: about 2 years ago Kevin Aquilina

When the luminary Raphael Lemkin, a Jew and the Father of International Criminal Genocide Law, was coining the word 'genocide' and compiling his excellent studies on the various genocides/holocaust...

The EU Ocean Pact: a new opportunity

Sunday, 15 June 2025, 08:18 Last update: about 2 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The United Nations Agenda 2030 was adopted in 2015. It identifies 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 169 targets through which it can be achieved. In Nice, France, during this week,...

Adventure boldly, preserve Gozo’s quiet environment

Sunday, 15 June 2025, 08:17 Last update: about 2 years ago Emmanuel J. Galea

Gozo invites travellers with limestone cliffs that glow at sunset, valleys that smell of capers and wild thyme, and water so clear that divers swear the fish look magnified. Visitors quickly discover...

What quality of life?

Sunday, 15 June 2025, 07:12 Last update: about 2 years ago Mark Said

"Quality of life" has quickly become a catch-all term, but confusion over what it actually means could have serious negative consequences. Once a term largely used by health-care professionals,...

World War III as we slept

Sunday, 15 June 2025, 07:11 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

It's just gone 5am. The birds are chirping welcoming a new day.  All around me people are still sleeping as are those in my place of residence, possibly working off the exuberance of...

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