Scratch meritokrazija; insert nomenklatura
Friday, 12 August 2016, 09:34
Last update: about 11 years ago
One of the reasons Labour got elected in March 2013 was Labour’s promise to rule by meritocracy. “You may not agree with us, but you can work with us” resounded in the squares and on...
Mizzi, Schembri, the European Parliament and the Panama Papers
Thursday, 11 August 2016, 09:13
Last update: about 11 years ago
It often seems that we live in a parallel dimension in which the tried and tested norms of political responsibility that the rest of the Western world are beholden to simply do not apply. ...
Rents and property: an alternative view
Wednesday, 10 August 2016, 09:00
Last update: about 11 years ago
The Sunday Times came up with a story how rents have increased over the past years. The increase, as reported on The Sunday Times, are nothing if not spectacular: a 38% rent rise for a one-bedroom...
Waiting for the next miracle by St John
Tuesday, 9 August 2016, 09:06
Last update: about 11 years ago
It is already a miracle that the application for the extension of the St John’s Co-Cathedral museum has been approved. The first application, as many will remember, was to dig out a huge...
The environment has gone to the dogs
Monday, 8 August 2016, 09:29
Last update: about 11 years ago
After the unanimous disapproval and condemnation of the Planning Authority’s approval of four towers at Mriehel and one super-tower at Tigne, the popular disapproval yesterday had another...
FIAU resignation: explanations required
Sunday, 7 August 2016, 09:59
Last update: about 11 years ago
When the director of the country’s Financial Intelligence and Analysis Unit resigns in the middle of what could possibly be the country’s biggest tax evasion and money laundering scandal...
High-rise buildings: Unanimous disapproval
Saturday, 6 August 2016, 12:33
Last update: about 11 years ago
Read any blogs you like, and comment spaces on news websites and the like – the unanimous reaction of the people of Malta at the Planning Authority’s bravado exploit on Thursday when in...
Editorial - High rises and skyscrapers: Vertically challenged
Thursday, 4 August 2016, 09:57
Last update: about 11 years ago
The Planning Authority today faces a litmus test when its board convenes to decide on two development applications of the type that have very much gripped the national attention over recent months:...
Dancing on the cliff edge
Thursday, 4 August 2016, 09:28
Last update: about 11 years ago
We report in this issue an account of last week's Business Breakfast held at the Hilton and organized by this paper and the Ministry for Tourism. As was experienced by those present and as is...