Breaking A circular problem
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
Finally push has come to shove! As the Italians say: “Il nodo è arrivato al pettine”.The financial crisis of 2008 and consequential recession was ...
Arriva And SmartCity proving ill-chosen names
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Austin Gatt is taking notice, if not actually losing sleep over the public transport mêlée. While claiming bafflement at being blamed for Arriva’s poor show (as far as I know, he was...
Hasta La Revolucion Siempre
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The best way I can find to describe what’s been going on recently is that the perfectly natural thirst for revolution can’t find an appropriate outlet. ...
J’accuse: Studies In theatre
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
According to a possibly apocryphal story that is doing the rounds on the Internet, Steve Jobs watched the launch of the iPhone 4S from his favourite sofa in his home in Palo Alto....
An Imploding government: a saga of hired guns and smoking guns
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Barely a week after Mepa and the OPM Permanent Secretary blamed each another in front of the ad hoc Parliamentary Committee on the black dust issue for the delay in publishing Professor...
Air Malta, Charges, and club class – which way forward?
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
The recent announcement regarding Air Malta’s booking charge caused a lot of hype on certain local blogs. However, looked at from a distance, it must be appreciated ...
They’ll Never agree
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 16 years ago
Malta Independent
A recent meeting involving representatives of the General Workers Union, the Confederation of Malta Trade Unions and the Forum Unions Maltin was given little space in the media, except in the GWU’s ...
Missing Links in women’s suffrage
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The history of women’s suffrage has been a long and arduous one marked by ups and downs, moments of accomplishment and lows of bitter disappointment. Thankfully, today, ...
A Moment In Time - The hour of reckoning?
Sunday, 9 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
There is rapidly growing ill feeling all over Europe and the United States towards the one per cent community of fat cats that have created the present chaos in world financial ...
Globalisation’s Government
Saturday, 8 October 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
We live in an era in which the most important forces affecting every economy are global, not local. What happens ‘abroad’ – in China, India, and elsewhere – powerfully affects even an economy as large as the United States....