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How Busuttil was misled

Wednesday, 21 June 2017, 09:10 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

My hunch is that Simon Busuttil was misled into believing that the Nationalist Party could win the election. If this is so, there could be two reasons for it. The deception could have been...

PN leader – Marlene? Why not Briguglio?

Monday, 12 June 2017, 11:01 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

It’s more of a provocation than a suggestion. But it is one way of showing how the Nationalist Party is at its lowest ebb in history, even lower than the post-2013 election. What happened...

Random thoughts at the counting hall

Wednesday, 7 June 2017, 08:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

1) Winston Churchill once said that the best argument against democracy is a conversation with an average voter. He was right. He was absolutely right. There are too many...

A challenge to Konrad and Keith

Tuesday, 30 May 2017, 12:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

Less than 60 hours remain till the end of the election campaign. Mizzi and Schembri were the new faces of Labour before the 2013 election. Labour was promising heaven on earth at the time, and...

A vote for AD is a vote for Labour

Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 10:13 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

Imagine this scenario. The Labour Party obtains 150,000 votes, the Nationalist Party and Partit Demokratiku together get 145,000 votes, and Alternattiva Demokratika gets 6,000 votes (last time...

Prime Minister, my children are not yours

Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 08:55 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat chose a very unfortunate phrase in the Labour Party’s first mass meeting of the election campaign in Zabbar on Sunday....

Pizza Egrant

Tuesday, 2 May 2017, 09:46 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

If I owned a pizzeria I would change the name of some of the pizzas available on the menu. A Margherita, a Capricciosa and a Quattro Stagioni would be replaced by an Egrant, a Pilatus and a Panama....

Mine is bigger than yours politics

Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 08:52 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

Or yours is bigger than mine, depending which way you look at it. For the Labour Party, anything that Labour has done is of greater importance than what was achieved by the Nationalist Party,...

Alfred Sant revisited

Tuesday, 14 February 2017, 11:58 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to interview Labour MEP Alfred Sant on our programme INDEPTH. Apart from the love for books and the pleasure of reading and writing, I have little else in...

PM avoids Busuttil, media

Tuesday, 24 January 2017, 12:00 Last update: about 8 years ago Stephen Calleja

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has refused to be interviewed on the online programme produced and presented by The Malta Independent, the now familiar INDEPTH. He has also shied away from...

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