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All those chickens, coming home to roost

Thursday, 12 October 2017, 07:17 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Any otherwise sensible and politically attuned person who campaigned for Adrian Delia to become leader of the Nationalist Party should by now be undergoing a dawning realisation of something akin to...

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Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 08:03 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

This has been another eventful week. Jerome Frendo:  Losing one of yours is always very difficult to fathom and more so at such a tender age.  Jerome, this kind, sympathetic and...

Spanish shame and European frigidity

Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 09:27 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

I never disconnect the attachment of history with present-day events. Yes, we do try to forget and move on with our new realities, but there is still that transparent thread which somehow survives the...

Arvid Pardo: 50 years on

Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 08:46 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Going by the Prime Minister’s address to the EU Conference held in Malta this week on the protection of the oceans, it would be reasonable to assume that, as a maritime nation, Malta’s...

You’re still on my agenda

Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 07:21 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

In the past three weeks, two keynote speeches of substance were delivered.  On Independence Day, the Archbishop of Malta Charles J. Scicluna stressed the need to promote the common good during...

Low interest rates

Monday, 9 October 2017, 07:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The low interest rates of past years have put new pressures on many citizens, especially senior ones, for whom interest income on their bank deposits was earmarked to cover a substantial part of their...

Times of disorder in the PN

Monday, 9 October 2017, 07:23 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

If there is an expression that reflects the current state of the PN, this is ‘times of disorder’. In the past, I was extremely critical of the Nationalist Party’s Administration, but...

International Day of the Girl Child

Sunday, 8 October 2017, 10:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Marie Louise Coleiro Preca

On 11 October, we will mark the International Day of the Girl Child, by acknowledging the value and contribution being made by some 1.1 billion girls, who form part of the world’s population....

Adrian Delia’s first defeats

Sunday, 8 October 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

This was the week of Adrian Delia’s coronation as PN leader. But it was also the week of his first defeats. In a way, this is understandable in a new leader with no political experience and...

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