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Buying loyalty

Monday, 31 January 2022, 08:05 Last update: about 6 years ago Kevin Cassar

“The Ombudsman criticises us every year,” Civil Service head Mario Cutajar accused, “but he should be clearer about his own standards on persons of trust”.  The former GWU...

Subsidies

Monday, 31 January 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

Subsidies are not well seen. They are considered as a method by which state funds get diverted to keep inefficient operations going while serving the interests of the few at the expense of the common...

The language of autocracy

Sunday, 30 January 2022, 10:23 Last update: about 6 years ago Kevin Cassar

“If the institutions are terrorising you, don’t knock on doors, come to me”. This was Robert Abela rolling back the centuries to the Middle Ages when William of Aragon became Count...

The Return of the Leader?

Sunday, 30 January 2022, 09:42 Last update: about 6 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

Is His Imperial Majesty plotting his return from exile?  Let’s pretend he succeeds.  Then, what?  Will he embark on his Hundred Days till he finds his Waterloo? To be then exiled...

Ensuring a guaranteed basic income

Sunday, 30 January 2022, 09:19 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The need for a decent basic income is an all-time issue among those who have a social conscience. However, it assumes more importance in times like these, when prices of essential goods are spiralling...

Biden’s fate for Metsola

Sunday, 30 January 2022, 08:22 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

The wave of euphoria that accompanied here in Malta the election of Roberta Metsola to the presidency of the European Parliament lasted but one day, and not even that. On news services around the...

The gloves are off

Saturday, 29 January 2022, 09:18 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

If there is anything that Labour, PL, in all its administrations and projections cannot endure it is being told what to do by the Opposition, PN, or, whomever in the mind of the PL anarchists, they...

The jobs of the future

Friday, 28 January 2022, 10:23 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

Space has terrific potential as a new economic niche and we want to do something about that. The space ecosystem already plays a fundamental role in our everyday lives.  Many of the services...

The limits of State aid

Thursday, 27 January 2022, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

Since the pandemic has been raging, governments everywhere had little choice if they intended to ensure their economy would stay afloat: they needed to open the gates of their treasuries and channel...

Doing all we can to become extinct

Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 06:44 Last update: about 6 years ago Evarist Bartolo

Over 2000 years ago, the Jewish sage Hillel warned us: “He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.” During this Covid crisis, Pope Francis re-echoes Hillel’s warning, when he says:...

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