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Cardona’s axe and Grixti’s muzzle

Friday, 15 April 2016, 11:08 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

The Labour Party will have no problem to overcome the hurdle put up by the Nationalist Party in the form of a no confidence motion that will be debated in Parliament on Monday. Its huge majority in...

Two minds, one focus

Friday, 15 April 2016, 10:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Meeting Dr Godfrey Farrugia and Dr Marlene Farrugia at their home in St Julian’s had a peculiar feeling to it.  I’ve interviewed them innumerable times individually but I thought I...

Qualunquismo

Friday, 15 April 2016, 08:55 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

There is a word that clearly expresses the political situation in Malta at the moment and this is qualunquismo. Qualunquismo appeared in Italy, after the Second World War, in reaction to Fascism and...

Of gods and animals

Friday, 15 April 2016, 07:54 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

These past eight weeks have been like a daily soap opera, except that the experience has been depressing not entertaining. One episode more surreal than another, with a cliff hanger at the end of each...

Lies, lies and more damned lies

Thursday, 14 April 2016, 10:50 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Prime Minister’s chief of staff and his favoured cabinet minister both issued statements today, once more protesting their innocence in the aftermath of an article published yesterday...

The Greek problem

Thursday, 14 April 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

During official discussions at the European Parliament, it is being said that the financial package for Greece hammered out in the middle of last year is making progress. The Greek government...

Civil society calling

Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 09:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I've heard it so many times that our society is passive, disinterested and its citizens are disengaged.  This cannot be further from the truth. I think this country should be proud of its civic...

Flight KM-KS @ €92 to Panama

Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 11:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

I am writing at a corner table in one of the coffee shops at the Malta International Airport.  People are restless, pacing to and fro the departure and the arrival lounges.  It’s...

Nexia BT and the Panama Papers

Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 08:26 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

Nexia BT is once again in the news for the wrong reasons. It was mentioned in John Bundy’s programme on RTK Radio by the veteran journalists Godfrey Grima and Frank Portelli. They spoke about...

The Panama tsunami

Monday, 11 April 2016, 09:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

If someone says he has an internal conflict, he cannot be serene and happy. So there was some contradiction in what Konrad Mizzi said last Thursday. What is sure is that this scandal that...

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