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Respecting the rules

Thursday, 30 July 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

The greatest danger for the PN as I see it does not relate to whether they change their current leader or stay with him. Nor is it that they’re likely to lose the coming election and perhaps the...

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 06:43 Last update: about 7 years ago Mark Josef Rapa

  Last week's spike in new Covid-19 cases was met with increased disputed between citizens, healthcare workers and organisations, and the state. But Prime Minister Robert Abela us still...

Twixt north and south

Monday, 27 July 2020, 08:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Alfred Sant

During the last European Council, the contrast... or if you prefer, the distance... between the north and the south of the EU again emerged. Who’s on the north side has a self-image of being...

Linguistic lustre

Sunday, 26 July 2020, 10:48 Last update: about 7 years ago Charles Flores

If there is one subject I have always regretted not having studied, despite digesting plenty of books about it, is linguistics. It is such a fascinating discipline, especially to us Maltese boasting...

Château Pétrus and the 'anything goes' syndrome

Sunday, 26 July 2020, 10:00 Last update: about 7 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Politicians should keep a social distance from big business, always, not only during a pandemic. This was reportedly stated by George Hyzler, the Commissioner for Standards in Public Life earlier this...

And I’ll say it again: Daphne was always right

Sunday, 26 July 2020, 08:46 Last update: about 7 years ago Victor Calleja

I’ve repeated this often enough. If it isn’t music to your ears, just flip over or don’t click on this article. It’s all Daphne Caruana Galizia’s doing.  When she...

An open contest beckons

Sunday, 26 July 2020, 08:35 Last update: about 7 years ago Noel Grima

Trying to make head and tails of what happened at the latest hard-fought, six-hour, diatribe-filled executive council meeting of the Nationalist Party is like treading through treacle. Time and...

Motivating for success

Friday, 24 July 2020, 09:26 Last update: about 7 years ago Owen Bonnici

Throughout Europe, Ministries of Education rapidly put in place measures linked to the closure of schools and launched remote teaching initiatives to support school leaders, teachers, parents, and of...

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