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New horizons

Thursday, 9 February 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

Politics is there to offer solutions to problems as they arise. But more than that, it has to be a platform from where challenges can be identfied as they emerge, and ideas and policies are laid out...

The arrogance of the powerful

Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 14:56 Last update: about 5 years ago Evarist Bartolo

Enrico Mattei was visiting Tunisia to explore the possibility of building an oil refinery. He was approached by one of the heads of the Seven Sisters who told him: “You will not build the...

Information

Monday, 6 February 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

The world we know is totally dependent on the enormous volumes of information that are continually being created, used and registered, at which point they become “data”. Every sector of...

A storm in a teacup

Sunday, 5 February 2023, 09:13 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Aquilina

I have followed with great interest the latest storm in a teacup whereby ADPD, Repubblika, the Chamber of Advocates, and possibly others who would have ridden on the same bandwagon by the time this...

In a Banana Republic

Sunday, 5 February 2023, 09:11 Last update: about 5 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

When Labour Leader Robert Abela addressed the party faithful at the Birkirkara Labour Party Club last Sunday, he was right to complain that the sentencing policy currently applied by the judiciary may...

The weaponisation of justice

Sunday, 5 February 2023, 09:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Kevin Cassar

The Egrant inquiry recommended that Karl Cini should be criminally investigated for perjury. The same inquiry recommended that FIAU official Jonathan Ferris should be “given the right to explain...

After him, the deluge

Sunday, 5 February 2023, 08:09 Last update: about 5 years ago Noel Grima

We ought to have taken notice when Daphne warned us, but we didn’t. There was something more than strange when San Anton sprouted celebratory plaques to commemorate private events in only one of...

A more sustainable Carnival

Friday, 3 February 2023, 09:26 Last update: about 5 years ago Owen Bonnici

The Maltese Carnival (il-Karnival ta’ Malta) is one of the oldest cultural festivals in Malta with almost five centuries of documented history dating back to times of the Knights of St...

After the furore

Thursday, 2 February 2023, 08:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Alfred Sant

Polemics about the courts and delays in how judicial and police systems operate bubbled up again. It made waves in social and traditional media. So what? Will anythng change even if the Prime...

The new green logic

Thursday, 2 February 2023, 07:50 Last update: about 5 years ago Michael Briguglio

In these past days, the Government announced the availability of hundreds of millions of Euros for green development and urban regeneration. At the same time, it was announced that Malta will be...

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