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It’s not a government. It’s a crime syndicate.

Sunday, 12 February 2017, 11:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Over in Panama, Ramon Fonseca and Juergen Mossack have been in police custody since Thursday. Panamanian police have raided their offices and even their homes. Photographs of the two men accompanied...

Keeping focus, and a sense of proportion

Sunday, 12 February 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Noel Grima

I am sure that there are many today who want to read more and more about this week’s almighty clash between Daphne and Chris Cardona. I am equally sure there are many others who have read enough...

Saving our hard copy

Sunday, 12 February 2017, 10:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Charles Flores

It may just be naive sentimentality, but I do dread the day when there is no real, hard copy newspaper for sale in our shops. One would have thought it could not happen in my generation’s...

Basics for coalition building

Sunday, 12 February 2017, 10:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

It happens on the eve of most general elections in Malta. We are once more being bombarded with comments emphasising the need to set up a pre-electoral coalition in order to present a united...

The man who was a narcissist

Saturday, 11 February 2017, 09:28 Last update: about 10 years ago Rachel Borg

This story is about a man who is a narcissist with what would probably be professionally diagnosed as Narcissistic Personality Disorder or NPD.   He is a politician and he has recently been...

Muscat – the weakest link

Friday, 10 February 2017, 12:09 Last update: about 10 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

To say I am in shock is a total understatement. For those who have not yet heard, journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia has had her bank accounts frozen through a garnishee order requested by...

Change

Thursday, 9 February 2017, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Alfred Sant

When proposals arise for reform or radical change in the way by which a society is being run, the choice usually falls between two options: either reforms are launched in a big way and some care is...

Some key words

Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 09:27 Last update: about 10 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Some of the key words that top our national agenda at this time: Abortion:  An issue waiting on the side raring to be discussed.  Even if most of us strongly oppose this issue it is...

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