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Terrorism in Europe

Monday, 28 August 2017, 07:40 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

As it changes its operating patterns, terrorism in Europe is succeeding to massacre innocent people. But in no way does it seem like it is reaching any kind of target that a jihad supposedly tries to...

A rigged electoral process

Monday, 28 August 2017, 07:39 Last update: about 10 years ago Simon Mercieca

In Sunday’s Illum dated 12 August, the Nationalist Party candidate and lawyer Joe Ellis wrote a damning article wherein he exhorted Frank Portelli and Adrian Delia to quit the...

Before Saturday’s vote

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

One has to start from the 3rd of June. The events of the previous weeks had led many in the Nationalist Party, the leadership included, to believe that the relentless campaign against corruption under...

The last two weeks in 1,000 words

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 10:45 Last update: about 10 years ago Alice Taylor

I leave the island for two weeks (not to go back to my own country, don't get too excited) and all hell breaks loose. Like a toddler that has been left alone with its mother's makeup bag, common sense...

Opinion: What needs to be done

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 10:01 Last update: about 10 years ago Adrian Delia

I was recently asked in a live TV debate why I had decided to run for the PN leadership. Before I could say much, I was also asked many questions about innuendoes and falsehoods reported and repeated...

Opinion: A new dawn for the Nationalist Party

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Chris Said

For us to be the choice of the majority, we need to earn that through our virtues and not because of Labour's deficiencies. We need to work on our virtues, revive the values on which they were built,...

A hostile corporate take-over

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 09:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The events in the Nationalist Party are a tragedy for Malta, and not just for the party itself. People are gravely concerned, as well they should be, who have nothing to do with the party itself...

Cloudy with a few sunny periods

Saturday, 26 August 2017, 10:59 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

When Joseph Muscat launched his "best times still to come" slogan it was on the back of strong criticism from the Opposition and a pressing sense of lack in various areas of social and essential...

No, Europe will not be subdued

Friday, 25 August 2017, 07:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Marlene Mizzi

The latest wave of terrorist attacks in Spain and Finland occurred at a time when Europe is enjoying its last weeks of a particularly hot summer season. They came when Europeans are proudly applying...

And then they said they had a plan

Thursday, 24 August 2017, 10:46 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

When the Labour Party, back before the 2013 general election, told us that it had a plan, and that its plan was “costed and concrete”, it omitted to mention that it was a plan to rob the...

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