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Riding roughshod

Friday, 6 May 2016, 09:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

He came, he saw, he apologized (kind of). Then Konrad Mizzi left the chamber. Only minutes before he stood up to address the grave situation he has placed the country in, Mizzi was openly goofing...

Segregation in education is the way forward

Friday, 6 May 2016, 09:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

The Talking Point of the Times of Malta of Thursday 28 April was penned by Therese Comodini Cachia. The title was Same segregated schooling. In her piece, Comodini Cachia criticized the current...

Yesterday’s vote weakened the government

Thursday, 5 May 2016, 12:20 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

With their vote last night in favour of Konrad Mizzi, all those Labour MPs, including his cabinet colleagues, who have been critical of his behaviour have now painted themselves into a tight corner...

Dates

Thursday, 5 May 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Up to not so long ago, the custom was for celebrations of big political and national events to be organized around commemorative speeches. It is true that these were experienced as a...

Doing a Me‘zz’i

Wednesday, 4 May 2016, 11:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

These last weeks have been one of the most turbulent periods in our political history.  It is the second time in as many weeks that the President of Malta Marie Louise Coleiro Preca felt the need...

Civil Society - you’ve got the power

Tuesday, 3 May 2016, 09:08 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

In my previous article last Tuesday, I had forecasted that the PM will not dismiss either Minister Konrad Mizzi or his chief of staff Keith Schembri, both seriously embroiled in the Panama Papers...

Injoranza

Monday, 2 May 2016, 13:07 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

I have always been fascinated by the English language. The more I read, the more I understand how comprehensive it is, as the language is rich with words for each and every moment, feeling,...

Mockery

Monday, 2 May 2016, 10:09 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

During the Parliamentary debate on the motion against Government, the Prime Minister defended himself by referring to a phrase often used by Eddie Fenech Adami at the time he was Prime Minister; those...

Libyan concerns

Monday, 2 May 2016, 07:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

There are few signs that in the past weeks, some significant improvement occurred in the Libyan crisis. The government that the UN and ”Western” powers would like to see established has...

Farcical ‘reshuffle’ is the talk of the town

Sunday, 1 May 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

You have to wonder what the Prime Minister hoped to achieve with his cabinet ‘reshuffle’ last Thursday, if not another paragraph in the political suicide note he has been busy writing for...

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