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Gated

Thursday, 9 June 2016, 07:43 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

As time passes, I increasingly convince myself that the globalisation we have been experiencing over the last thirties years, has been a mistake. In practice, the way by which the world economy...

A child called Willa

Wednesday, 8 June 2016, 08:38 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

It is useless to say how admirable and resilient Willa is. This 8 year old has shown character that most of us won’t manage to garner over a lifetime.  Let’s face it, thebuoyancy and...

The 1919 Sette Giugno riots

Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 08:22 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

Today, Tuesday 7 June, Malta commemorates one of the five national public holidays.  Being a public holiday many make for the beach, others to the countryside.  The more laid back ones go...

Ground-breaking buildings

Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 08:18 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

In the eighties and early nineties, I still recall leading environmentalists arguing that Malta’s future lay in high-rise buildings. The argument at the time was that Malta should stop expanding...

Customer care

Monday, 6 June 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

When clients, consumers and constituents believe they are being shortchanged, the present fashion is to direct them towards some section or office where they will be heard and given...

Divide et impera; divide ut regnes

Sunday, 5 June 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Put more simply in English, this is the age-old policy, supposedly first verbalised by Philip II of Macedon and later put to excellent use by Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and the British in India, of...

Brexit round the corner

Sunday, 5 June 2016, 10:45 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

It was The Guardian, which is firmly in the Remain camp, which announced this week that a poll it commissioned shows that the Brexit camp has surged ahead in the UK.  Up till then, the Remain...

Where is the rule book?

Saturday, 4 June 2016, 08:49 Last update: about 11 years ago Rachel Borg

Malta has become unrecognisable from what is was as it began its life as an independent country.  The character, principles and values that once defined this island are lost and...

Pseudo-environmentalists and industrial investment

Saturday, 4 June 2016, 08:01 Last update: about 11 years ago Simon Mercieca

It seems that my last blog about the shipyard and the tearing up of an invitation by the Labour whip Dr Godfrey Farrugia on Facebook, irked a number of individuals to the extent that the Minister for...

Health in a spin

Friday, 3 June 2016, 10:29 Last update: about 11 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Isn’t it very odd that the Minister for Health claims he is “not aware” that there is political interference at the health centres? That’s not a denial. It’s a very cagey...

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