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Who will stand up in the eye of this storm?

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 08:35 Last update: about 10 years ago Ivan Grech Mintoff

Malta is in a perfect and devastating political storm with no precedent. Our knowledgeable forefathers would have steered us well away from this danger, but the present leaderships of the two main...

Better together

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 08:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Clyde Puli

The Party is neither its leader or officials, outgoing or incoming, nor its headquarters which we Nationalists fondly call 'Stamperija'. The party is its ideals and its people. Without these two...

Working close to the people

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 08:15 Last update: about 10 years ago

It is the combination of serious planning and the ability to keep going when faced with challenges that leads to the successful completion of everything that needs to be done. Feasible...

Lib v Con: The Scales of Freedom

Sunday, 3 September 2017, 07:44 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

It seems like a story set in Gabriel García Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, with the liberals and the conservatives fighting a civil war. Only that in that novel, General...

Transforming armchair activism into physical good

Saturday, 2 September 2017, 11:23 Last update: about 10 years ago

By Tina Urso At times we all feel the need to express our anger and frustrations, on injustices happening worldwide, especially those closer to home. We all feel the need to give our two cents on...

European culture in 2018

Tuesday, 29 August 2017, 11:21 Last update: about 10 years ago Karsten Xuereb

Next year promises to provide an interesting opportunity for cultural exchange across Europe. Citizens of the EU often look at their continental home as a political unit that is beleaguered by...

Gozo part of the national prosperity

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 08:02 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

Human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. These all act, react and interact with each other and we individually evaluate facts rather than...

The virtue of magnanimity

Sunday, 27 August 2017, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Michael Asciak

With the world being what it is, descending ever deeper into the spiral of relativity, I have always believed that in secular politics one of the ways forward is to practise more than ever the theory...

Brexit blues

Saturday, 26 August 2017, 11:04 Last update: about 10 years ago

By David Stellini and Carm Mifsud Bonnici Over the past months we heard the news that the Maltese Government has formally bid to host the European Medicines Agency. The seat of this agency is...

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