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After Wednesday’s earthquake: civil defence

Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 09:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

On Wednesday an earthquake of 4.4 magnitude on the Richter scale was reported in the Maltese Islands. As far as we are aware, no damage was caused, yet it would is appropriate to consider a number of...

Patriotic twats

Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 08:35 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

I dare use the title to this piece for one reason alone and it is certainly not out of any disrespect to people who have every right to hold different views on the issue of the immigration crisis in...

I am sorry for Eddie

Tuesday, 29 August 2017, 09:17 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

The Nationalist Party should be ashamed of itself. From Simon Busuttil down to the least important official, they should be ashamed of the way they allowed the campaign for the new leadership to...

Jan Palach and the new PN leader

Tuesday, 29 August 2017, 08:20 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

In August forty-nine years ago, the then Soviet Union invaded the former Czechoslovakia.  In protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of his country, Prague-born Jan Palach, 21,...

Terrorism in Europe

Monday, 28 August 2017, 07:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

As it changes its operating patterns, terrorism in Europe is succeeding to massacre innocent people. But in no way does it seem like it is reaching any kind of target that a jihad supposedly tries to...

A rigged electoral process

Monday, 28 August 2017, 07:39 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

In Sunday’s Illum dated 12 August, the Nationalist Party candidate and lawyer Joe Ellis wrote a damning article wherein he exhorted Frank Portelli and Adrian Delia to quit the...

Before Saturday’s vote

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

One has to start from the 3rd of June. The events of the previous weeks had led many in the Nationalist Party, the leadership included, to believe that the relentless campaign against corruption under...

The last two weeks in 1,000 words

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 10:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

I leave the island for two weeks (not to go back to my own country, don't get too excited) and all hell breaks loose. Like a toddler that has been left alone with its mother's makeup bag, common sense...

Opinion: What needs to be done

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 10:01 Last update: about 10 years ago Adrian Delia

I was recently asked in a live TV debate why I had decided to run for the PN leadership. Before I could say much, I was also asked many questions about innuendoes and falsehoods reported and repeated...

Opinion: A new dawn for the Nationalist Party

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Chris Said

For us to be the choice of the majority, we need to earn that through our virtues and not because of Labour's deficiencies. We need to work on our virtues, revive the values on which they were built,...

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