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Right To left, left to right

Sunday, 7 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

It is not easy to pigeon-hole the ideology of political parties these days. Most, if not all, sway from left to right and the other way around, depending on the circumstances and on what suits them most at that moment in time....

Why Let the facts get in the way?

Sunday, 7 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

I suppose it was inevitable that the Labour Party and its Super One propaganda machine would make a meal of the fact that Joe Cassar, the health minister, was a witness in...

True Owners of their homes

Saturday, 6 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In my term as parliamentary secretary responsible for public property, one of the greatest issues that characterised my work over the past three years has been the settling of overdue unpaid-for expropriations of private land....

How Serious are Italy’s fiscal woes and how can the EU come to its assistance?

Saturday, 6 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The elegant shorthand for the eurozone’s fiscal black sheep – PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) – came under pressure to expand to the ungainly ‘PIIGS’ when Italy’s growing public debt began to draw opprobrium from the financial markets...

The Rise and fall of a British tabloid

Saturday, 6 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Today, British newspaper stands will be bereft of one of its oldest and most controversial newspapers. Last Sunday, the News of the World,...

America’s Fiscal isolationism

Friday, 5 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Patience might be a virtue, but not necessarily when it comes to American foreign policy...

Car Prices on the decrease in the EU

Friday, 5 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Recently published statistics by the European Commission show that in 2010, car prices fell by 2.5% throughout the European Union...

Obama Pivots to new string of problems

Thursday, 4 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

President Barack Obama dodged a debt-ceiling fiasco Tuesday. He reacted with a wiped brow more than a victory lap, and with good reason...

Pederasts, Not paedophiles

Thursday, 4 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Charles Pulis and Godwin Scerri have been found guilty of sexual crimes against boys aged 13 to 16. Yet we persist in calling them ‘paedophile priests’...

Debt Deal takes minor swipe at red ink

Wednesday, 3 August 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The compromise debt limit deal may have resolved this year’s most clamorous political battle between President Barack Obama and Congress, but it takes only a modest swipe at the heart of the matter: The government’s relentlessly huge budget deficits...

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