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Politicians of expediency or principles?

Wednesday, 10 September 2014, 08:17 Last update: about 13 years ago Austin Sammut

        I ask whether it is principles or political expediency which rule this country. Over many decades except for rare occasions it has been political expediency that...

A new era in European fora

Tuesday, 9 September 2014, 08:44 Last update: about 13 years ago David Casa

        First of all I would like to start off by paying my respects to John Camilleri, a respected man who used to occupy the office of private secretary to former Prime...

At sixes and sevens

Tuesday, 9 September 2014, 08:02 Last update: about 13 years ago Gejtu Vella

        Hurray, the uncertainty which was building amongst the leading socio-economic stakeholders came to an end as last week the pre-budget document ‘Creating...

Rebuilding the Nationalist Party

Tuesday, 9 September 2014, 07:49 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

        There was no doubt that it was going to take a lot of hard work to rebuild and unify the Nationalist Party after the thrashing it got at the last general...

Mysterious and heartbreaking

Monday, 8 September 2014, 08:18 Last update: about 13 years ago Marlene Farrugia

        There are moments in one’s life that can never be forgotten. A fleeting presence in a situation, a look, a word, a glance, a retort. Some memories do stick...

Now is surely not the time to turn it into a village celebration

Sunday, 7 September 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

The events we have seen happening over the past months and (why not?) a sense of national consciousness should shed a very particular light on what we will be celebrating tomorrow.   We are...

Just one of the guys?

Sunday, 7 September 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alison Bezzina

It is no surprise, at least not to me, that Europe’s new executive commission is mostly made up of men from right-wing parties.   In what was possibly a panicked attempt to readdress...

Raiders of the lost ark

Sunday, 7 September 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

In an attempt at showing us all how dynamic and proactive they are and how they leap about running the country, certain members of the government have taken to springing themselves unannounced on...

Creative destruction

Sunday, 7 September 2014, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alfred Mifsud

Creative destruction is a term coined by Joseph Schumpeter in his work entitled Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) to denote a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly...

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