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Justice delayed

Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 08:15 Last update: about 6 years ago Peter Agius

Justice delayed is justice denied. While it does invoke a feeling of political retribution, Keith Schembri’s arrest is but a reminder of how justice was missing in action for so many years,...

Namelessness and facelessness

Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 07:45 Last update: about 6 years ago Andrew Azzopardi

50 years or so ago, the University of Stanford’s psychology Professor Philip Zimbardo and his research team set out to investigate ‘power’ and how it is perceived by people who are...

Interest rates and inflation

Monday, 22 March 2021, 08:20 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

An ongoing debate between central banks now focuses on whether we are entering a period in which inflation will gather. For quite a while, price rises have been almost totally extinguished. This...

Mentalities

Sunday, 21 March 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Charles Flores

The babbling, ruffled-haired figure of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come out strongly against Britain returning the Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, to their rightful...

The octopus in our midst

Sunday, 21 March 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

During the past weeks we have been witnessing the exposure of a web of criminality which has infiltrated and infected all sectors of our society. Revelations are being made public by instalments, as...

Planning the infrastructure of recovery

Sunday, 21 March 2021, 09:00 Last update: about 6 years ago Noel Grima

Around 2012, or even earlier, the Labour Party began to use the infamous Fourth Floor where the foundations of the new Labour administration were laid. We now know what this preparation consisted...

Dictatorship?

Saturday, 20 March 2021, 09:02 Last update: about 6 years ago Rachel Borg

We are living what can be described as a dictatorship in Malta. Nothing short of that. As happens to people in many countries that face this fate, their reality is altered and their life becomes...

Resilience is our trademark

Friday, 19 March 2021, 08:03 Last update: about 6 years ago Owen Bonnici

If there is one feature which stands outs clearly and markedly in the Maltese population, it is resilience. We are a nation of people who know what it means to work hard and know that the greater the...

Looking Back

Thursday, 18 March 2021, 08:22 Last update: about 6 years ago Alfred Sant

In the controversies and discussions that have continued about the abuse of power and other forms of unacceptable behaviour one discovers how those who are most vocal in denouncing abuses, then shy...

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