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Salvu Mallia did what the entire Nationalist Party should have done

Sunday, 15 January 2017, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The new Nationalist Party candidate, Salvu Mallia, stood outside the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday, wearing half a sandwich-board decrying government corruption and the European Commission's...

Of dead people and undead court cases

Sunday, 15 January 2017, 10:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

I still can’t get over the death of Lino Arrigo Azzopardi. We got on well together and were good friends. On either side of the EU referendum and accession, we were part of a small media...

Marsa: a planning mess

Sunday, 15 January 2017, 10:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The Chamber of Architects has taken the Planning Authority to task on the piecemeal local plan reviews that it has been churning out, one at a time. The latest tirade was with reference to a partial...

A hop, skip, and a jump

Saturday, 14 January 2017, 09:37 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

We are all so chuffed now that we are just a hop, skip and a jump away from the culmination of all the heavily guarded projects entrusted to Konrad Mizzi, together with his Panama audit reaching their...

Mr Fake News in person

Friday, 13 January 2017, 09:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

As Donald Trump, soon to become the leader of the free world, gave his first press conference as president-elect, Muscat became the “president” of Europe. What do these two men have in...

It gives me great welcome and pleasure to you all

Thursday, 12 January 2017, 10:16 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

I couldn’t help but begin this column with what were – sadly – not the famous last words of the Speaker of the House. What were the odds that, faced with all the excitement of...

Immigration and Europe

Thursday, 12 January 2017, 08:12 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Correctly, no high expectations are being raised that on immigration, there could occur during the Maltese presidency of the EU any significant positive developments in European policy for the sector....

Moral compass

Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 08:24 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I was particularly struck by a couple of interesting issues that surfaced these last couple of days on the news (this country of ours never lets us down when it comes to polemics, as we all...

Bl-Ewropa go qalbna

Tuesday, 10 January 2017, 07:39 Last update: about 11 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Ħafna minnkom iħobbuh it-tuffieħ. Tħobbuh aħdar iebes, kemm kemm qares, jew aħmar nar u aktar ħelu. Daż-żmien tħobbuh ukoll f-forma tal-kaxxa...

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