The Malta Independent 31 July 2026, Friday
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England, Gozo, Namibia And Malta

Monday, 17 July 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

No, not my next predicted World Cup semi finalists, but four countries (well I'm in Gozo this weekend writing this and Gozo not only feels like its own separate electoral district....

Interplay Of political power

Sunday, 16 July 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

Political parties first came into being, and still remain at their core, as social formations. They give flesh to coherent political ideas, formed and enunciated in the process of social discussion. They aspire for political power....

Seeing Off the tourists

Sunday, 16 July 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

People can only afford to be rude and indifferent to their customers when they have a product that everyone wants or needs and nobody else has. ...

Hand Of Maradona, head of Zidane

Sunday, 16 July 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

We sat, stood, leapt up, cried out in pain or with joy during all those games, which started off fantastically and then inevitably deteriorated to more and more penalty shootout finishes as the World Cup...

Rising Temperature

Saturday, 15 July 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

Across the length and breadth of Malta, there has been a marked rise in temperature that has nothing to do with the season. The electorate is approaching the run-in to the next general elections....

The Difference between the parties

Friday, 14 July 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

My attention this week goes to the many letters, in my opinion, far too many, written by British citizens, who tend to pontificate on Malta’s needs, whether touristic or not, and take the liberty to use our own newspapers to hurt us. ...

Friday Wisdom: Exit while on top

Friday, 14 July 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

Marcello Lippi gave us a perfect example of what it means to exit while on top. Just when he had the whole country at his feet heaping glory for the unexpected victory at the 2006 World Cup against many odds....

The Crazy people of Malta

Thursday, 13 July 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Some people say that the reason many Maltese fly the flags of other nations during the football season is because we never make it to the World Cup....

Who Was in the know?

Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 21 years ago Malta Independent

It’s all over. The joy, the pain, the tears, the beers, the highs, the lows, the fantastic month-long period of football mania that is the World Cup....

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