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Could it unbalance?

Thursday, 3 March 2016, 07:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

I know I risk sounding again like Cassandra. However it still seems to me important for us to reflect about whether our economy is in danger of becoming over-dependent on a too narrow range of...

Children cannot wait

Wednesday, 2 March 2016, 10:44 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Several years ago when I was still reading for my social work qualification at the University of Malta one of my placements was with the Adoption and Fostering Unit at the than Ċentru Ħidma...

Love’s Labour’s lost and won in a month

Tuesday, 1 March 2016, 08:17 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

David Cameron made internal news about the way he used Shakespeare’s comedies to make pun of his rival, Jeremy Corbyn. It should be pointed out that Cameron was extremely witty in his selection...

Requiem

Monday, 29 February 2016, 10:39 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

Like most of you reading this piece, I am grappling with a political reality. A political reality I never expected to materialise just three years after the enormous rush of a resounding Labour...

Economic forecasts

Monday, 29 February 2016, 08:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

Economic management has come to depend a lot on forecasts being made regarding how developments are shaping towards greater or lesser growth. Such forecasts, even if carried out under the strictest...

Why don’t we all have a company in Panama?

Sunday, 28 February 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The biggest farce in this ongoing black comedy called “The Strange Case of JosephKonrad and the Amazing Panama Company” was the sight and sound of the Minister for Health and Energy...

The end of the dream

Sunday, 28 February 2016, 10:30 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

After they removed the flag and the hymn, changed around the name, they have now dismantled what was left of the Malta Labour Party. The MLP is no more. Instead, we have a chimerical invention...

Konrad’s Trust

Saturday, 27 February 2016, 18:05 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Hats off to Konrad Mizzi. He makes headlines once again and, once again, for the wrong reasons. The list of stories involving the Minster for Energy and Health is endless. I am losing count. His...

Beating a retreat

Saturday, 27 February 2016, 09:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” ― Woody Allen. Sound the retreat.  It is not unusual to have around us those who prefer to shrink...

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