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Prime Minister, my children are not yours

Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 08:55 Last update: about 10 years ago Stephen Calleja

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat chose a very unfortunate phrase in the Labour Party’s first mass meeting of the election campaign in Zabbar on Sunday....

For the love of our Islands

Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 07:39 Last update: about 10 years ago Gejtu Vella

While preparing to pen this piece, I thoughtwhich issues merit thorough reflection now that the electoral campaign is gearingup.  I concluded that good governance deserves detailed consideration....

1976 and 1992 revisited

Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 07:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

Well, of course you have to have reached a certain age to remember them and, more precisely, to have experienced them, but the similarities in circumstances – both social and political –...

Hysteria

Monday, 8 May 2017, 08:05 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

What I found surprising during the last weeks, was the hysterical style adopted by the Nationalist Opposition. True, they were making extremely serious allegations against the government. But surely...

Joe (Peppinu) Cassar: the death of an honourable man

Monday, 8 May 2017, 07:50 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

On Saturday, the people of Tarxien, together with many residents of the fourth electoral district, paid their last respects to the honourable Joe Cassar, known as Peppinu, the name by which he was...

The first five days

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The first five days of the electoral campaign are a good indicator of what is to come, bar the ever-present possibility of a tactical bomb detonating on either side of the barricades. Interestingly,...

The campaign: take one

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 10:51 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

As I watched the big Labour mass meeting at Castille on Monday, I could not help noticing some changes: there was not a single EU flag to be seen and many in the crowd had reverted to the red Labour...

Let us save our own skin and to hell with the lot of you

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 10:17 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

I have tried to stay out of politics, I really have. As a foreigner who washed up here the best part of a decade ago, what could I possibly say about the complex intricacies of a bipartisan country...

Malta re-loading

Saturday, 6 May 2017, 08:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

As the chickens come home to roost for the Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and their spouses and financial advisors and their dear friends who share a common goal in making the world a better place...

On Joseph, Glenn and AD

Friday, 5 May 2017, 15:04 Last update: about 10 years ago Salvu Mallia

The Labour Party is the first victim of Joseph Muscat and his politics, Salvu Mallia says today. The Nationalist Party candidate, in his vlog today, also speaks of Glenn Bedingfield, employed as...

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