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The saintly man who got everything wrong

Sunday, 13 November 2022, 07:25 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

“Imma Padre (I was still a priest then) ma tarax li l-Ewropa hi immorali?” (But Padre don’t you see that Europe is immoral?). That, in just one sentence encapsulates Karmenu...

The mix

Thursday, 10 November 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

One can only agree immediately with all that is said in support of multiculturalism and the need to proscribe totally all speech and action that stimulate antipathy (to put it mildly) between...

Complacent

Monday, 7 November 2022, 08:28 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

The temptation does arise to consider that the attitude being adopted regarding the island’s actual economic situation against the background of the growing uncertaitnties that surround us,...

Still running scared

Sunday, 6 November 2022, 10:01 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

“Can you remind people exactly how many big significant interviews Liz Truss has done?”, Andrew Marr asked Andrew Neill. “I think that would be zero”, Neill curtly...

Mqabba: a victim of institutional sclerosis

Sunday, 6 November 2022, 09:09 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Around twenty years ago, the authority responsible for land use planning, then named MEPA, had published a Minerals Subject Plan for the Maltese Islands. The plan is dated May 2003. The...

Magistrate Lia’s (Mis)conduct

Sunday, 6 November 2022, 08:08 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

It all boils down to impartiality. And why an examination of Magistrate Lia’s conduct is important to each and every one of us. A couple of weeks ago, this newspaper’s weekly sister...

Hondoq saved, but is Gozo?

Sunday, 6 November 2022, 07:15 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

So after 20 years the Hondoq ir-Rummien chapter is closed and all breathed a sigh of relief. I have been following and reporting on this saga right from the very beginning when we media were...

+150%

Friday, 4 November 2022, 08:35 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

The total increase of the financial allocation for arts and culture for the year 2023 compared to the last budget of a PN administration (the budget for the year 2013) is a whopping 150%. The...

Budgetary logic

Thursday, 3 November 2022, 11:28 Last update: about 5 years ago Michael Briguglio

On the one hand, Budget 2023 follows a logic of relative stability, in the context of the various global crises through which Malta is navigating. On the other hand, the budget does not give...

Regulatory agencies

Thursday, 3 November 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

In the modern governance of parliamentary democracies, regulatory agencies have been allocated a leading role. Once the idea that economic affairs should be run according to free trade principles...

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