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Joseph Muscat belongs in football

Sunday, 27 November 2022, 08:49 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

As billions of football fans around the world watch the world cup football, few acknowledge the black cloud of scandal that engulfed FIFA’s dodgy decision to hold the world cup in...

Labour’s half-baked abortion proposal

Sunday, 27 November 2022, 07:51 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

On Monday Parliament approved at first reading stage Bill number 28, a Bill that seeks to clarify the provisions of the Criminal Code relative to therapeutic abortion. Specifically, the objects and...

Standards

Friday, 25 November 2022, 08:16 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

Can someone explain how a person is considered perfectly capable to fill the all important post of Chief Justice, but then, a few years down the line, that same person is deemed by the Opposition...

Open political debate

Thursday, 24 November 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

A political custom that has been lost over the years was that of open  debates held internally by the political parties. I remember how in the past – but this goes back almost to before I...

The race against climate change

Monday, 21 November 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

We are in a desperate race to counter global climate warming in time -- so we are told, not least as recently as at the COP conference in Sharm el-Sheikh. But no matter what you read or who you speak...

The demise of public relations

Sunday, 20 November 2022, 10:34 Last update: about 5 years ago Mary Muscat

“The public service’s PR in general has long been dead. It might sound like a sweeping statement, but look at how the Phoneline 153 took over from the departmental...

Wanted: a transport policy which makes sense

Sunday, 20 November 2022, 08:31 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Everywhere is within reach in the Maltese islands: distances are relatively small. It is, in addition, an established fact, documented in the Transport master plan, that 50 per cent of private car...

The age of decadence

Sunday, 20 November 2022, 08:30 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

“Why do you keep defending Owen Bonnici?”, Robert Abela was asked. “Because I have full trust in him,” came Abela’s curt reply. Abela sees vices as virtues and...

Unravelling the arts deficit

Sunday, 20 November 2022, 07:29 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

In future times when people will get to analyse our time they will most probably conclude that this has not been a good time for the spread of the arts in our country. There is a lack of the...

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