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Abela’s sensitive society

Sunday, 30 October 2022, 10:14 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

On 14 December 2012, Adam Lanza shot 26 people dead at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut, USA.  20 of them were six or seven year old children. The rest were adult staff members....

A culture of dependency

Sunday, 30 October 2022, 09:15 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The budget for 2023 presented to Parliament by Finance Minister Clyde Caruana last Monday may be described as one which reinforces a culture of dependency. Government handouts are used, left, right...

Budget blues

Sunday, 30 October 2022, 07:38 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

So Budget Day has come and gone and all those who wanted have had the opportunity to have their say. Institutionally, the Opposition’s reaction comes in the coming days – but don’t...

Budget

Friday, 28 October 2022, 09:26 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

In these past three years, the European continent and other corners of the globe have faced significant circumstances which created challenges that no one could have predicted or imagined. ...

The right direction

Thursday, 27 October 2022, 06:48 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

The budget for the year 2023 has been driven in the right direction, maintaining a reasonable balance between social and economic goals. It is quite clear that whatever has been said about it, the...

Anxiety

Monday, 24 October 2022, 07:05 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

In a number of European countries, feelings of anxiety have spread at the state of affairs in the economy, political developments, indeed defence and security. Clearly, Putin’s war has given...

Labour’s soul has spoken

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 09:54 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

The Labour Party has been taken to the cleaners. It faced a frenzied attack of damning accusations. Who was behind this public assault on Labour? “How did Malta finish in this shambles we...

Young, uniformed and racist

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 09:45 Last update: about 5 years ago Mary Muscat

When BBC journalist Mark Daly joined the Greater Manchester Police as an undercover recruit in 2003, he helped uncover racism within policing that the Macpherson Inquiry four years earlier had exposed...

Tribe v. Ideas

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 08:57 Last update: about 5 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

I’m not sure one can call Manwel Cuschieri an anchorman, since, as far as I can remember, he has always been a one-man show. He’s no longer a One-man show, though, as One Radio decided to...

Greenwashing by ERA

Sunday, 23 October 2022, 08:50 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) has published a draft National Strategy for the Environment for public consultation. The proposed strategy is not specific but generic in nature. It lists...

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