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Defamation

Monday, 11 April 2016, 07:44 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

I still need to understand the logic of the protests that the Opposition organized about the defamation case raised in court with respect to Dr Jason Azzopardi. What was the issue: that it was...

The toxic bubble

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

Louis Grech told the Labour Party’s annual general meeting on Friday that the party survives because it is always conscious of the changing mood. Let’s leave aside the fact that this...

Konrad ‘Jericho’ Mizzi

Sunday, 10 April 2016, 10:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

We follow every twist and turn of this national crisis but maybe we are too focused on the immediate to notice the changing contours.  When Daphne Caruana Galizia first broke the story, the...

The Festa

Saturday, 9 April 2016, 09:21 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

These are supposed to be the party and people who love their country above all else.  The same ones who wanted to promote the rights of every citizen to a share of opportunity and the wealth and...

Panamagate and health

Friday, 8 April 2016, 11:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The world did not stop when, seven weeks ago, the foundations of our island felt the first tremors of Panamagate. Presumably business went on as usual. But did it? The Malta Employers Association...

Quick, somebody find that Maltese clock

Thursday, 7 April 2016, 11:08 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The current worldwide scandal about the information contained in the Panama Papers really puts into stark, cold perspective the mad hysteria, back in February 2013, about a clock given as a gift to a...

Brussels

Thursday, 7 April 2016, 07:59 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Two weeks after the terrorist attacks, in Brussels there still prevails a certain sense of shock. Or so it seemed to me.  All at once, it’s like a fear that had been kept under wraps for...

Bridging the gaps

Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 09:32 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I have been shadowing the disability sector for quite some time now.  There were both high and low moments over the years.  I believe that the golden years in this field of social policy...

Feet on the ground

Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 11:57 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

In our confrontational political scenario there is hardly a dull moment. The political tug-of-war shifts from one issue to another without a break.  The political debate, supposedly a vehicle to...

Party financing and the spirit of the law

Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 08:15 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

I could not figure out how two lawyers, Owen Bonnici and Deborah Schembri came up with the idea that the Loan Scheme that is being proposed by the Nationalist Party goes against the spirit of the law...

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