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Armageddon night

Sunday, 8 February 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

The story began to develop late on Tuesday morning, although it had been present in some way or another since the previous week. Independently of each other, our newsroom was contacted by its...

Willie didn’t need to find a garage, after all

Sunday, 8 February 2015, 11:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Hot on the heels of the news that there will now be a market inserted between the theatre and parliament house (the world's first market in a project designed by Renzo Piano) we have another Taghna...

Let’s talk about sex…‘baby’

Sunday, 8 February 2015, 10:45 Last update: about 12 years ago Jenny Pullicino Orlando

Why are we not all talking about a change in the age of consent? Why are we not shouting louder about it? Aside from the fact that I was actually quite enjoying watching the general public squirm at...

The spoils of environmental crime

Sunday, 8 February 2015, 10:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

A building development amnesty is in the pipeline. It is being handled by Mepa. No one is yet aware as to whether this is a Mepa initiative or whether Mepa was instructed by the government to prepare...

Lilliput

Saturday, 7 February 2015, 11:10 Last update: about 12 years ago Rachel Borg

There are a number of cities in Europe which have a similar or larger population than the Maltese islands. These include Dublin, Antwerp, The Hague, Bristol and others. The list of larger cities...

Why Labour likes those stalls

Friday, 6 February 2015, 08:06 Last update: about 12 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

There are amateurs and there are amateurs. Good amateurs are those who do things for love. Money does not really come into their equation. They have a passion for what they do and go into great...

Terror threats: The right to know

Thursday, 5 February 2015, 14:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

Malta is not mentioned many times in the international media, and when it is it always attracts our attention. It is more so when the news featuring our country involves our national security,...

‘I don’t like that other boy, Miss’

Thursday, 5 February 2015, 07:59 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The newspapers have reported that when Joseph Muscat met Angela Merkel yesterday in Berlin, informally, she asked him whether he had had a good relationship with his predecessor. Merkel’s was...

Managing by crisis or administering by focus?

Wednesday, 4 February 2015, 07:56 Last update: about 12 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Our latest controversy is on the new, now discarded, Monti stalls that were intended to host bargain purchases in the form of jeans (‘tlieta lira’), panties tat-tigra, sexy push-up and...

Bras, boxers and Parliament

Tuesday, 3 February 2015, 08:33 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

Joseph Muscat seems to be enjoying himself as the prime ruler of this little country of ours. He has the best position anyone wanting to have it his own way all the time can hope to hold. We have now...

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