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Peppi, please stop it

Wednesday, 30 March 2016, 09:57 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I sincerely respect Peppi Azzopardi.  I wouldn’t like this column to be interpreted as anything but a differing opinion.  I know of so many positives this man is answerable to which...

Superstars and heroes

Tuesday, 29 March 2016, 09:18 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

I am compelled to express my sorrow at the passing away of superstars and to record my disgust at the recent atrocious, senseless and barbaric attacks in Brussels and Baghdad in the past days. People...

A new political party

Monday, 28 March 2016, 10:53 Last update: about 10 years ago Marlene Farrugia

You must be wondering. Therefore I will update you. These are not easy times for people who care, and I mean really care about our country. Our forefathers struggled and toiled to turn...

Terror

Monday, 28 March 2016, 07:46 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Terror has been deployed as a tool of war since human beings realised they functioned as social animals. With every generation that has passed since that discovery, terror has been adjusted and...

Happy Easter, Crazy Island

Sunday, 27 March 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Prime Minister’s aide, Glenn Bedingfield aka Fat Gland, has chosen to mark Eastertide by launching an assault on the Archbishop. I imagine he believes this is a jolly good way of rallying...

After the Brussels carnage

Sunday, 27 March 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

This was no knee-jerk reaction to the arrest of the last terrorist implicated in the attack on Paris in November. The Brussels attack was minutely planned and executed. The logistics behind them...

A Fronte Praecipitium, A Tergo Lupi

Saturday, 26 March 2016, 09:10 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

Last October we watched the saga of Noel Sciberras in Libya, abducted by a gang in Tajoura  and held prisoner for over a month until he was freed and brought back home to Malta.  There have...

Archbishop Joseph Mercieca: Personal Recollections

Friday, 25 March 2016, 10:08 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

Catholic believers would not consider it a coincidence that their Bishop Emeritus went to meet the risen Lord during Holy Week. His life was an up-hill struggle. Before referring to a few unknown...

Notes from a sink-pit of corruption

Thursday, 24 March 2016, 10:18 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Prime Minister declared three days of national mourning for the death of a former Archbishop of Malta, and promptly jetted off for his Easter holidays, saying that he would miss the formal funeral...

Friends of friends

Thursday, 24 March 2016, 06:52 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

Jeremy Boissevain was the first to explain how to a substantial extent, affairs are conducted in Malta according to a friends-of-friends system, with "friends" working together to help each other...

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