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Lies and fables

Thursday, 26 July 2018, 10:59 Last update: about 9 years ago Marlene Mizzi

There should be no doubt that the biggest winner that has emerged from the free and independent magisterial inquiry over the long and winding Egrant affair story is the truth. The Maltese people had...

Hard with caution

Thursday, 26 July 2018, 07:55 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

A little more than ten years ago, during the 2008 election campaign, my comrades chided me for having left till too late to open up the scandal about the incredible abuses that was were being...

Mental health

Wednesday, 25 July 2018, 10:14 Last update: about 9 years ago Michael Briguglio

In his vlog today, Nationalist Party candidate for the European Parliament election speaks about mental health....

The government's post-coitus contraceptive methods

Wednesday, 25 July 2018, 08:32 Last update: about 9 years ago Arnold Cassola

A very common expression in English is "to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted". This basically means going about a useless task, by trying to prevent something from happening, but doing...

Beginning of the end or an opportunity?

Wednesday, 25 July 2018, 08:30 Last update: about 9 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

But from where do you start?  Never in my lifetime have I thought that I would be writing a piece that reflects such a dramatic situation in a Party that has left an indelible impact on so...

It's not my responsibility

Tuesday, 24 July 2018, 08:52 Last update: about 9 years ago Camilla Appelgren

By now I think that I have organised a cleanup in each council of this country. Being a statistics nerd, I always analyse the numbers after each and every one of these events. It is interesting to see...

2020 goals

Monday, 23 July 2018, 08:07 Last update: about 9 years ago Alfred Sant

Before the present decade took off, the European Union set goals that member countries had to reach by the year 2020, country by country, and for the Union as a whole. The difficulties that have...

The Order of St John and Malta around 1630

Monday, 23 July 2018, 08:04 Last update: about 9 years ago Simon Mercieca

The Centre for Maltese Hospitaller Studies in Taranto, Italy has just published an extremely interesting book by Victor Mallia-Milanes on Lo Stato dell’Ordine di Malta 1630. The book forms...

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