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A Moment In Time: Books do furnish a room

Sunday, 7 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Caught as we are at home in between selling and moving house soon, part of a downsizing exercise meant to coincide with the inevitable passage of time, my one and only real dilemma is not what to do with all ...

EU Or E.Ouch?

Sunday, 7 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The first rule of politics in a tiny town-like island like Malta is be nice to people and treat them well. The second is to be competent. And the third is never be arrogant....

Please, Vince, Go on with the pilgrimage

Sunday, 7 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

It’s such a shame that Vince Marshall has called off his protest pilgrimage against the screening of The Da Vinci Code. I was looking forward to it very much. ...

Destructive Virus

Sunday, 7 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Notwithstanding a radical Public Service Reform, and an Operations Review some years back, large segments of the civil service are still manned by inadequately trained personnel, often out of their depth....

Economic Expectations

Saturday, 6 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

Liberal representative democracy must, at all times, keep a wary eye on two economic endemic threats which could best be described as economic contradictions within the system. ...

Watch It...

Friday, 5 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 19 years ago Malta Independent

This week we had some interesting themes to ponder about. The escalating subject of low-cost carriers is one of them. ...

Friday Wisdom: A Tribute to Galbraith

Friday, 5 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

John Kenneth Galbraith, who passed away last Saturday at age 97, was an influential American economist of the 20th century. ...

The Pastizzi shop principle

Thursday, 4 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The people of the largest country on earth, and those of the smallest, have one thing in common....

The Iran Crisis

Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

If there is political madness in some of the statements made by Iranian President Ahmadinejad, it would be equally mad to even consider the option of bombing Iran....

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