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In fakes we trust

Saturday, 20 June 2020, 07:11 Last update: about 7 years ago Rachel Borg

Much has been discussed in these past days about the repercussions falling on Dr Chris Cardona, now ex-deputy Labour Party leader for party affairs, of the testimony that played out in court in...

More than just education

Friday, 19 June 2020, 07:35 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

An ESF-funded project created to help Malta reach EU benchmarks in education has turned out to be a vital tool in recent months, allowing children to continue their education effectively during the...

Racism

Thursday, 18 June 2020, 06:44 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

It is at the risk of being found dumb, that one concludes racism does not exist in Malta or that it does not have, like in other countries, deep roots. From where they emerged, it is difficult to say....

Back to the sordid normal

Thursday, 18 June 2020, 06:40 Last update: about 7 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Will Cardona now be investigated? That’s one of the real tests of whether we have a truly new normal or not. It is hardly the only test, however. It didn’t take long. All it needed...

Les carrottes sont cuites

Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 06:55 Last update: about 7 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

A couple of weeks ago I saw the 2015 movie, The Walk, a biographical film directed by Robert Zemeckis and penned by Browne and Zemeckis himself.  The film narrates the true story of French...

Resilience in the face of adversity

Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 07:12 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

Two years and eight months ago, investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was brutally murdered. We have since seen a civil movement attempting to restore good governance. Some battles were won,...

The banks

Monday, 15 June 2020, 07:09 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

A controversy flared up these last few weeks about European banks. It revolved around the point that banks are getting the rules under which they operate made more flexible so that they can offer...

Tabloid truths

Sunday, 14 June 2020, 10:50 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

I have to admit I have always loved the genuine tabloids and actually spent a good number of years of my own splashing huge typeface for frontpage headlines in my newspaper days. There really is...

The Parliamentary Opposition

Sunday, 14 June 2020, 10:20 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The fact that government has been forced by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe to loosen its stranglehold on the Commissioner of Police appointment process is a positive democratic...

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