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...