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A Magnolia world

Friday, 21 May 2021, 07:33 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

It has been a breath of fresh air – at least for me - to hear a senior politician of a major European Party say candidly and clearly that authenticity is the key in today’s political world...

Privatisation

Thursday, 20 May 2021, 07:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

Public works were the first government function to get privatised. The Public Works Department as it was then known, was dismantled. The operations it ran were farmed out by public tender to the...

Corruption and populism

Thursday, 20 May 2021, 07:11 Last update: about 6 years ago Claudette Buttigieg

As the economy prepares to re-open, many of us are full of pent-up energy, with plans of what we’d like to do, and we’re in no mood to be judged or controlled by others. Funnily...

It’s not in our ‘Destiny’ to be united

Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 07:29 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

Naturally the talent of Destiny is there for all to hear.  Destiny might have the X-Factor, but in my eyes she is not ‘the’ national unifying factor as some would think and it...

New faces for old politics?

Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 07:25 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

The call out there is very clear, especially on the side of the Nationalist Party: we want new faces in politics. People yearn for political outsiders that have none of the baggage associated with...

A view of the city

Monday, 17 May 2021, 08:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

It was a beautiful experience some days ago to walk down the streets of Valletta, in the burst of late morning sunshine. Especially down Republic Street, a sizeable crowd of strollers was to be seen....

A people’s torture

Sunday, 16 May 2021, 10:30 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

How much more can the Palestinians suffer before they instinctively decide to commit national harakiri and rub themselves off this terribly unjust world they were left in by the big, colonial powers?...

The abortion debate

Sunday, 16 May 2021, 09:28 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

The abortion debate is very emotional. Many insults are flying around. Some, unfortunately never learn. The basic premise underlying the abortion debate is identical to that of the divorce...

Marlene’s Pandora Box

Sunday, 16 May 2021, 08:29 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

I think I can compare Marlene Farrugia’s legislative proposal to a similar initiative by Jeffrey Pullicino Orland some years ago regarding, then, divorce. The two parties, engaged in their...

Short-cuts

Saturday, 15 May 2021, 07:13 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

Let’s be honest.  We like short-cuts.  And these days there is a real sense of competition on who will deliver the best, the cheapest and the most efficient short-cuts.  Google,...

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