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Back To basics – in the virtual world of GonziPN

Tuesday, 11 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

GonziPN’s recent call to get back to basics while pledging that values mattered more than votes was as fake and phoney as the way the whole concept of ...

Be The Pied Piper

Monday, 10 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

In our childhood, we often heard about the story of the Pied Piper, where a young man goes to a village and starts playing his flute. Whilst playing the music, children are mesmerised and follow him blindly as he walks away from the village… ...

Party Contrasts

Monday, 10 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Although the general election has not yet been officially announced, both political parties are already in election mode. ...

A Coalition would have meant salvation

Sunday, 9 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

Our political system is modelled to a large extent on the British one, but we have failed to see how the British have evolved and how we too have evolved ...

Values Before votes

Sunday, 9 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Last Wednesday we breezed through, quite unobtrusively, the 14th anniversary of the 1998 election that brought the PN back to government after ...

End Flooding. Vote Joseph.

Sunday, 9 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

My, my – things have come to a pretty pass when even the storms and flooding are “tort tal-prim ministru”. Or rather, to be more accurate, “ta GonziPN”. Water in your hallway? ...

Even A storm can become a political tool

Sunday, 9 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

When we woke up on Monday morning with lightning flashes, rumbling thunder and pouring rain, I received a tongue-in-cheek message that the government, more specifically ...

Local Leaders should get used to being lampooned

Sunday, 9 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Oh please, how I wish many of my country folk would grow up and muster a degree of sophistication. I cannot believe the palaver, fuss and non-sequitur comments online following a photomontage of Prime Minister Laurence Gonzi ...

Part 5: Nuclear Weapons And World Peace - Could Malta lead the way?

Sunday, 9 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Human beings are so adaptable that we have often accomplished what we previously thought ourselves incapable of achieving. The idea that men could fly was seen as absurd until the Wright brothers, Santos Dumont and others defied...

Dignity And support for our elderly

Sunday, 9 September 2012, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Malta, like most other countries is an aging nation. By 2015, there will be 103,000 persons over the age of 60. This number, which reflects a quarter of the total population, brings about a number of challenges...

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