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Cut loose and drifting away from the shore into a major storm

Thursday, 30 June 2016, 09:58 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Quite frankly, I don’t know how David Cameron is still upright, unless he is one of those men who have that impressive ability to take no blame for any of the consequences of their actions, see...

Polls

Thursday, 30 June 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

Do polls mean anything any more? In the last general elections in the UK, they forecasted everything the wrong way round. Similarly and more dangerously, when it came to the results of the...

We speak the same language – Dean Maureen Cole

Wednesday, 29 June 2016, 09:23 Last update: about 11 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

I caught up with Dr Maureen Cole, Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing a couple of weeks ago to try and recognise better how she understands the social sector and how the Faculty she has been...

A love-hate relationship

Tuesday, 28 June 2016, 09:22 Last update: about 11 years ago Gejtu Vella

European Union sceptics in Britain must have danced the night away after it was confirmed that the leave camp has secured a result which will end Britain’s EU membership.  It was a night of...

No morning after pill for Britain

Monday, 27 June 2016, 09:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Stephen Calleja

The British never accepted the fact that they are no longer an empire. They believe they can still rule the world as they used to do in the past, and they keep the Commonwealth up and running in spite...

Soft or tough?

Monday, 27 June 2016, 07:38 Last update: about 11 years ago Alfred Sant

At the end, the majority of the British people decided in favour of leaving the EU. I am one of those who did not expect, but were not surprised by, the result. Not least because I had heard how the...

It can’t be much fun to be young and British today

Sunday, 26 June 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Even before the results of the Brexit vote had been properly analysed, it was clear that the decision had been taken by older people. But the time the analysis was complete, we knew that 73 per cent...

The English have decided, now the others must

Sunday, 26 June 2016, 10:55 Last update: about 11 years ago Noel Grima

To hear some commentators, one would think the end of the world is nigh. So many catastrophes had been talked about by the Remain group before the vote that the Remain section of the media (and they...

Wherefore the Maltese language?

Sunday, 26 June 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 11 years ago Charles Flores

For all the hype, tension and the dreaded presence of several cynics among the audience, last weekend’s important consultation meeting regarding the use of imported English words in the Maltese...

Tall buildings: the advice ignored by the Maltese authorities

Sunday, 26 June 2016, 10:15 Last update: about 11 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

“Tall buildings cannot be avoided in our times. The choice we have is whether to control them or whether to put up with their future growth.” These were the concluding comments of a report...

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