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A solid future in a Malta that belongs to all

Sunday, 3 March 2013, 09:37 Last update: about 13 years ago Stephen Calleja

Some people get away with murder; others are hanged for a parking offence.   But who said life is fair?   It starts off when it is always the wrong sibling who gets a light smack...

The pale blue vote conundrum

Sunday, 3 March 2013, 09:36 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

There is, as far as I know, no study on the pale blue vote – how big it is, what it consists of, whether it can be segmented, any past history, and so on. Yet I hold that it is the pale blue...

Time for a change to Labour

Sunday, 3 March 2013, 09:27 Last update: about 13 years ago Martin Scicluna

Once every five years, the daily slog of partisan Maltese tribal politics reaches a crescendo in a general election campaign. What has so marked this long-winded campaign – far too long for...

PN: Predictably Negative

Sunday, 3 March 2013, 09:24 Last update: about 13 years ago Leo Brincat

I must have touched a raw nerve when I recently told Dr Simon Busuttil during a TVAM morning discussion earlier in the week that not only has his party not found enough time to elaborate upon its own...

In the final stretch

Sunday, 3 March 2013, 09:07 Last update: about 14 years ago Roger Mifsud

Well here we are, in the final stretch of this inordinately long election campaign.   Its duration was so willed by Lawrence Gonzi, who was so keen to let us know, more than once, that it...

The end is nigh for old-style politics

Sunday, 3 March 2013, 09:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Charles Flores

Only a week to go, now. Today week (for there are no “silent” days on the web) will finally see the end of a long and arduous election campaign that has sometimes had people feeling bored...

Vote sanely for a solid future

Friday, 1 March 2013, 10:09 Last update: about 13 years ago Mario Rizzo Naudi

The time is fast approaching for the most important moment in a democracy. Soon you and the whole nation will decide your future for the next five years. Your vote counts and is sacrosanct: make sure...

European Equal Pay Day – why is it important?

Thursday, 28 February 2013, 08:18 Last update: about 13 years ago Maria Therese Portelli

For equality in the workplace to be safeguarded, providing equal opportunities to everyone is imperative. Employers have the obligation to safeguard equal treatment including in the pay, perks and...

Animals are the new children

Thursday, 28 February 2013, 08:15 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The Labour Party has clearly decided that animals are the new children, and so the Fearless Leader must be seen to feel concern for them so as to attract the votes of those who really...

People chose positive

Thursday, 28 February 2013, 08:10 Last update: about 13 years ago Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi

At the start of this election, my hope was that this would be a positive campaign, with a serious debate about the future of the country. My desire was that both parties would be judged by their...

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