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They Still don’t get it

Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

We have been through this scenario before. One side claiming “the media was against us”; stamping its feet, throwing tantrums, going on the defensive and wailing that “our message was manipulated”. It all sounds depressingly familiar....

Labour’s Special weapon

Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Deborah Schembri has confirmed on Xarabank that she will be standing for election on the Labour ticket in 2013. Joseph Muscat was right to snap her up. He’ll probably field her on two of these dist...

Powerful Institutions losing their grip

Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

Well, the babaw tactics did not work and I was as surprised as many other people, especially since the result of last weekend’s referendum goes beyond divorce. ...

When Crime should never sleep

Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Last week’s arrest of Serbian General Ratko Mladic signals an important development for the slow healing process of the countless victims of the bloodiest conflict on European soil since World War II. ...

First Blood to the PL

Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Many well-known and highly placed people during this last week have expressed surprise that the Yes vote carried the Divorce Referendum. ...

Convent Malta: Out in a flurry

Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Out went, in a flurry, Convent Malta, thank goodness. That was the one single message that ran through my mi...

The Church’s Renaissance: the need to tackle clerical abuse

Sunday, 5 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Reacting to the momentous result of the 28 May referendum in favour of the introduction of divorce legislation, Monsignor Anton Gouder, the Church’s Pro Vicar General (one of the key architects of the Maltese Church’s r...

Capital Controls or protectionism

Saturday, 4 June 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Economic growth in emerging markets is more than twice that in “advanced economies” (7.3% versus 3% in 2010, according to estimates by the ...

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