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Simon Busuttil needs to bring the laces behind the ball!

Monday, 27 October 2014, 10:36 Last update: about 13 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Following the discourteous exit of Lawrence Gonzi, not only from the reigns of the country but also from those of the party Leadership, somehow everyone 'knew' that the next in line would be Dr Simon...

Roadmap on digital rendition

Monday, 27 October 2014, 07:59 Last update: about 13 years ago Marlene Farrugia

We live in strange times and bizarre things keep happening all around us near and far. And in times of such unprecedented uncertainty, people tend to either ignore things and suppress any grey matter...

It’s not late. It hasn’t even started

Sunday, 26 October 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

As the story of Labour's fabled power station becomes ever more tangled and complicated, it is evident that this is not a matter of the project been late, or delayed, as the press and the politicians...

The strategy of obfuscation

Sunday, 26 October 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

It was Minister Varist who gave the game away. On Monday, during the debate asked for by the Opposition on the power station delays, Minister Evarist Bartolo spoke well before Minister Konrad...

Culture of entitlement

Sunday, 26 October 2014, 10:51 Last update: about 13 years ago Stephen Calleja

Few people realise that what they are getting for free is not free at all. That someone else is paying for it. When we speak of free education, free health care and a wide array of social...

Prince George throws a hissy

Sunday, 26 October 2014, 10:30 Last update: about 13 years ago Alison Bezzina

It was one hell of a week - one so busy and hectic that, on Wednesday evening on my way back home from the office, I didn't even have the energy, or the will, to change the radio station tuned in on...

Please don’t bully me, sir...

Sunday, 26 October 2014, 10:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Charles Flores

I know bullying is the latest social catchphrase and I know it causes problems at whichever age one experiences it, but excessive use of, and exhaustive reference to the issue can often lead to a...

The PN's 10 Fora

Friday, 24 October 2014, 08:39 Last update: about 13 years ago Simon Mercieca

The role of 10 fora created by the leader of the Nationalist Party is to reverse the headless chicken mode that his party is in after two successive electoral defeats. Whether he will succeed or...

Up to no good

Friday, 24 October 2014, 08:13 Last update: about 13 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

Last Monday, in Parliament, I was sitting right opposite Konrad Mizzi and Joseph Muscat as they tried to deflect attention from their failure. I wasn't just listening to what was being said. I...

The Attorney General should let Leanne Camilleri be

Thursday, 23 October 2014, 07:45 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

Hasn't Leanne Camilleri, the 20-year-old whose false sexual abuse allegations landed her father in prison for more than a year, had enough of a terrible life already? When she was found guilty of...

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