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Kappara revisited

Thursday, 21 September 2017, 07:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The way by which work on the Kappara project has continued to progress remains impressive. The hallmarks have been a concentrated focus plus good planning, target dates achieved up to the end, and all...

Taking stock of the political narrative surrounding the PN

Wednesday, 20 September 2017, 11:20 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Tesserati:  Well done to the PN for getting the Tesserati involved in the choice of their leadership.  Whilst the campaign went on forever it is indeed good that important decisions are...

Vote 16+ Think twice this will determine our future

Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 11:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

During a press conference held on Saturday, 9 September the Parliamentary Secretary for Reforms, Citizenship and Simplification of Administrative Processes Julia Farrugia Portelli, released a...

The PN election

Monday, 18 September 2017, 08:42 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

The electoral process deployed by the PN to elect its leader is of interest not simply because of the outcome. The real interest lies in the question: was the method followed effective...

The way forward for Adrian Delia

Monday, 18 September 2017, 08:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

As rightly noted by the Malta Independent, instead of the media and the Maltese nation analysing the first 100 days of Dr Joseph Muscat's government, the focus has all been on the PN and the...

Macho men and dumb women

Sunday, 17 September 2017, 08:59 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I can't talk about the Nationalist Party leadership election result because the newspaper went to print before it was out in the early hours of the morning. But I can and will talk about Delia's...

The aftermath: a bloodbath?

Sunday, 17 September 2017, 08:55 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

The morning after the night before. The votes have been counted and the new leader declared amid scenes of jubilation. More scenes await him, culminating in an appearance on Il-Fosos this evening. It...

The time has come to legalise abortion

Sunday, 17 September 2017, 08:46 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

It has been several months now since the morning-after pill was finally licensed for sale in Malta. I use the word licensed because it was always legal in other forms and dosages, it just wasn't...

An Afghan wedding

Saturday, 16 September 2017, 09:18 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

Over the course of the past 16 years that the war in Afghanistan against Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban has been fought, often enough, tragic casualties included wedding parties.  In 2013...

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