Friday Wisdom: Do We have a housing bubble?
Friday, 2 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
This question is often asked in relation to the sharp increase in property prices experienced over the last few years. ...
No Magic potion
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Britain’s Home Office Minister for Immigration, Tony McNulthy, was here on a flying visit earlier this week. ...
Daphne’s Ifs
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
One result of Daphne’s forceful style (TMID 25 August) is that her ‘if’ sentences come across as stating self-evident facts....
Factions
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 22 years ago
Malta Independent
Much play is made of the fact that there could be various factions within the Labour Party. ...
Floods, Bombs and bangs
Monday, 29 August 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 22 years ago
Malta Independent
I was pleased to read the bishops exhorting us all, mums and dads, to put children’s welfare at the centre of our lives. It was also nice, for a change, to see that they have taken note of certain criticism they have ...
‘Folies De Grandeur’
Sunday, 28 August 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Last Sunday’s leading article in this newspaper with the title “Mishandling the country” was singularly perceptive. It referred to three successive faux pas committed by the Gonzi administration....
The Genes in our jeans
Sunday, 28 August 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
In summer, we socialise more, therefore we eat more and we have to look at the ravages of all this when our fellow Maltese and few Gozitans expose their bodies on the beach ...
Please, A sense of perspective
Sunday, 28 August 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
I read a story in The Observer about how Lampedusa – an island much smaller than Malta and with far fewer resources – is coping with the illegal immigrants who are washed up on its shores. ...
‘Whatever’s Good for the syndicate...’
Sunday, 28 August 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
There is a scene in Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 which – like many scenes in that novel, come to think of it – will always survive in my memory because it so poignantly epitomises the shabby little world we inhabit. For those unfamiliar with the book, ...
Law And disorder
Saturday, 27 August 2005, 00:00
Last update: about 22 years ago
Malta Independent
Information from official police sources communicated to the press disclosed that, in the first six months of this year, the Economic Crimes Unit carried out 119 raids and seized 19,839 DVDs, 1,524 PlayStation games and 3,980 audio CDs....