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Why The PN is losing

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

It is not the water and electricity tariffs per se that could cost the Nationalist Party the next election. ...

Time To take the medicine

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

As from last Monday, people just stopped buying....

Something Has to give

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

When pressure builds up, something has to give....

Sledgehammer To crack a nut

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

It is not reasonable to harass hundreds of law-abiding citizens to secure the arrest of a few on relatively minor offences. I am referring to roadblocks. I have been wr...

Handbag Terrorism

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Last December, Julia Farrugia, the editor of Illum, went to Comino, changed from her clothes into her swimsuit and jumped into the cold sea right in front of TV came...

J’accuse: The Rot in Wonderland

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Following a rabbit can be quite a silly thing to do. Especially one wearing a waistcoat and carrying a watch. Of course it remains silly so long as you are not Alice about to begin ...

My Father who art in heaven

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

While ruminating in my bed unable to sleep as my brain raced over a thousand and one problems, plans, hopes and fears, my eyes happened to fall upon the...

What Not to wear

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

Whenever a gathering of more than a hundred people who vote Labour takes places, the cameras inevitably try and zoom in on those who fit into the usual working class stereotype. So we get close-ups of rather shabby...

Democracies Are not all alike

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The concept of ‘democracy’ is equated with ‘freedom’, equality’ and ‘popular sovereignty’, and these ideals are so appealing that different kinds of regimes pay lip-service to them....

Day Of reckoning

Sunday, 7 March 2010, 00:00 Last update: about 18 years ago Malta Independent

I vividly remember my meetings, as head of radio at PBS during the mid-80s, with Michael Hudson from the Performing Rights Society to discuss the perennial problem of royalties and rights....

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