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...