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Outside input

Monday, 8 February 2016, 07:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

The latest Malta report from the International Monetary Fund raised a point that escaped much attention. Input from immigrant workers, mostly coming frm the European Union, was significant in the way...

The hijack

Sunday, 7 February 2016, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

It should have been obvious at the outset – before, that is, the general election – that Konrad Mizzi and Joseph Muscat are a team. They are a team not just in the political sense, but...

The never-ending revolution

Sunday, 7 February 2016, 10:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

It was Mao Zedong who, in the throes of the Cultural Revolution he unleashed in China in the 1960s, came up with the concept of a never-ending cultural revolution, wave succeeding wave, purging and...

Timely interventions on vacant properties

Sunday, 7 February 2016, 10:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

One particular aspect that has stood out in Joseph Muscat's political career since when he was emerging as a top-class journalist inside the raging volcano that a political newsroom anywhere can...

Pro-business takes a dive

Saturday, 6 February 2016, 09:31 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

Knowing what you have to do to sustain a thriving economy and doing it are two different things.  One the one hand you need to be inclusive and very sensitive to reality and potential, to nurture...

Look! Another rabbit out of the hat

Friday, 5 February 2016, 15:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

The week following Michael Falzon’s appearance on Xarabank has brought frenzy to the Castille cauldron in which political strategy simmers and boils. The NAO report was already a huge blow...

What a mess

Friday, 5 February 2016, 09:43 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

If it’s not a scandal involving property dealings, then it’s a questionable appointment. This government is in the news for the wrong reasons every day. Just when you think that there...

Mafia and two politicians

Friday, 5 February 2016, 07:54 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

Last week the Gaffarena scandal took a new twist when Dr Simon Busuttil labelled it ‘Mafia from Castille’, and assessed that the NAO's report is ‘a Mafia Story’. Labour...

Notes from a Prickly Pear Republic

Thursday, 4 February 2016, 11:35 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The government has continued with its practice of appointing cronies to public office and calling it feminism and ‘equality’ because they are women. The latest two are Go plc’s...

On being saintly

Thursday, 4 February 2016, 07:45 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

Having spent quite a number of years in the political trenches attacking the incredibly bad governance and worse of the PN in government, and in the process becoming a hate figure, I am shocked at the...

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