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Electric Avenue

Sunday, 12 October 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

You just have to wonder at the government's sense of priorities. To announce two cents off the price of petrol and a cent off the price of gas in months when nobody is using it for heating, they stage...

The twin horses of the Apocalypse

Sunday, 12 October 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

I know, the Good Book speaks of the four horses of the Apocalypse but this time I am going to speak of just two. Two with potential devastating consequences and which we, rather slowly, are becoming...

Who is intrinsically disordered?

Sunday, 12 October 2014, 10:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Alison Bezzina

Last week I came across a presentation by Joseanne Peregin. Joseanne is the President of the Christian Life Community in Malta and a few years back she had to merge her Catholic beliefs with the fact...

European harakiri

Sunday, 12 October 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Charles Flores

I see from recent local reports that Maltese pig breeders may be caught in the European Union’s sanctions folly against Russia. That is a very small, insignificant part of the otherwise vast,...

Alastair Campbell and the PN

Saturday, 11 October 2014, 09:47 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

Tony Blair's spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, was in Malta to give us advice on what to do and what not to do. He suggested that it would have been better for us had we remained a colony or, after...

The morning after

Saturday, 11 October 2014, 08:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

Last weekend saw a great big storm roll in and kick up a fury on Malta and Gozo.  Earlier it had been sunny and warm with relatively clear skies.  But within a few minutes all got dark and...

The glittering career of Joe Mizzi

Friday, 10 October 2014, 07:53 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Transport reform was not exactly the last Nationalist government's finest hour. A PN MP who criticises Labour on public transport needs to be sure of what she's saying. But the Minister of Transport,...

Pampered University students

Thursday, 9 October 2014, 16:16 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

The main problem University students abroad come across is how they are going to fund their studies. Many of them, unless they have wealthy parents who can sustain their expensive education, have to...

Parties are made of people, and it’s those you have to look at

Thursday, 9 October 2014, 08:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Martin Scicluna, in his column in The Times, yesterday attempted to justify the dissonance between his pre-electoral advice to his readers to vote Labour, and his dismay a couple of weeks back at the...

Justice System (2)

Wednesday, 8 October 2014, 18:41 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

I wish to thank all those who have reacted to my first blog which was my frank reaction to the Chief Justice's discourse at the opening of the Forensic year. It sparked a small discussion on our...

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