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Sleeping sad

Sunday, 18 July 2021, 08:33 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Last Monday, Boris Johnson addressed the nation in a televised press conference. He began by referring to the event of the previous night. “Last night,” he said, “we all went to...

Health among the Maltese population

Saturday, 17 July 2021, 07:42 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

Often these days we hear of a premature death of a friend or loved one.  Possibly it seems more relevant due to our own advance in ageing.  We compare the news of the passing of an active...

Crafts and the future

Thursday, 15 July 2021, 07:48 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

There is much sermonizing about how Malta’s development has to be designed in ways that make it future proof. Naturally, it is vital that this target remains a priority. We must keep focussed on...

Pandemic incompetence – take two

Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 07:04 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

The pandemic hit our islands like it did the rest of the world indeed, but unlike the rest of the world we seem not to learn how to balance economic needs with health considerations, oscillating from...

Public relations

Monday, 12 July 2021, 07:53 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

I get the suspicion that public relations techniques have completely taken over the ways by which we view developments in the various fields of life – politics, business, social welfare,...

You can’t eat the George Cross

Sunday, 11 July 2021, 10:53 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

Never in my wildest dreams did I, susceptible anglophile throughout my career, ever think I’d be able to one day use this title, borrowed from that historic piece written by the great British...

A grey-list switch

Sunday, 11 July 2021, 09:44 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Tomorrow, Monday, the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Standards in Public Life will commence the examination of Report K/032 on Labour Party Qormi Member of Parliament Rosianne Cutajar. The...

The future is already here

Sunday, 11 July 2021, 08:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

We saw this week a vision of the future, and it doesn’t look good at all. We must go beyond the facts as they are told us (or rather, as they come from the spinning machine) and understand...

100 policies

Saturday, 10 July 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

How are we to measure Malta’s success in the future?   As things stand in this hot summer air, the level of success is judged by the number of votes received at an election or the...

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