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Politics of convenience

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 09:40 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

Politics of personal convenience is what politicians, or the vast majority of them, practise. Politicians care little about true values, so why value politicians? The horror is that the more time...

The usefulness of the stop gap

Sunday, 14 July 2019, 08:42 Last update: about 8 years ago Noel Grima

I remember Louis Galea as president of the Students’ Representative Council and as the organizer of the March for Better Housing around 1968 (I also remember him at the Minor Seminary but that...

Come together

Saturday, 13 July 2019, 08:11 Last update: about 8 years ago Rachel Borg

The pattern of dependence is clear now.  There is nothing that Dr Adrian Delia, as leader of the Nationalist Party has done alone, on his own, created or delivered.  He is like that early...

Enhancing our heritage

Friday, 12 July 2019, 08:27 Last update: about 8 years ago Owen Bonnici

Current excavations in the Tas-Silġ site in Marsaxlokk have led to new discoveries – a site that is one of the most important archaeological sites in Malta and possibly in the Central...

Building regulations

Thursday, 11 July 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

Though the move came late, the government was right to issue regulations that attempt to protect citizens from the abusive inconveniences and worse that are rampantly being inflicted on residents when...

Darkness over Dwejra

Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 08:45 Last update: about 8 years ago Tara Cassar

Last week NGOs expressed outrage at a decision of the Environment and Planning Tribunal [EPRT] to overturn the Planning Commission’s refusal of a permit seeking the extension of a tables and...

Two sides

Monday, 8 July 2019, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Alfred Sant

It’s not the first time I could note the following: on both sides of the abortion debate, those in favour believe they are defending the basis of human rights, and the same holds for those...

He was so close

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 11:03 Last update: about 8 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

There was talk on the street, and it sounded so familiar. Great expectations, everybody was watching him. People he met, they all seemed to know him; even his old friends treated him like he was...

The music of the night

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 10:08 Last update: about 8 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Satellite photographs clearly indicate the extent of light pollution in Malta: it is comparable to that in most urban areas in the European continent. As a result, the music of the night is made...

Why are we delusional?

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 08:52 Last update: about 8 years ago Victor Calleja

We, the country of amazing minds and super-mega achievements, live two realities: the local one, a huge bubble of grandeur and the other beyond our shores. There, away from the coddling embrace of our...

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